What volume of patients must an organization generate in order to participate in NOMS?
There is no minimum number of patients needed to subscribe to NOMS; however, all patients within a participating program must be included in the data collection. The number of patients is not important. However, the larger the patient database, the more reflective the outcomes will be of your practice. We recommend that the analysis of any data containing small sample sizes be used cautiously in order to protect the confidentiality of the patients and to ensure the integrity of the data. If a speech-language pathologist is in a solo private practice, it may take longer to build this database, but the outcomes information will still be useful in shaping clinical practice.
