Demonstrating clinical quality and cost effectiveness: can extended scope physiotherapists rise to the challenge?

The author reflects on challenges that physiotherapists in the musculoskeletal medicine profession face when attempting to demonstrate that they provide quality, cost effective services. She suggests that to demonstrate the value of the services of physiotherapists it may be necessary to consider more complex outcome measures. She argues that in an effort to prove the cost effectiveness of their services physiotherapists may need to analyze and publish their costs.