The Neuropsychology Matrix: Key areas of work for the Clinical Neuropsychologist in the acute neuroscience setting (from Gillespie & Hacking, 2013) 

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... in a study conducted in an acute medical hospital in the US, Bishop et al. (2003) found that inpatient neuropsychologi- cal evaluations were incorporated into patient discharge recommendations in the majority of cases, and had an influence on discharge decision making. Figure 1 shows 11 key areas of clinical neu- ropsychological work as outlined in a local doc- ument, The Neuropsychology Matrix (Gillespie & Hacking, 2013), produced by the authors to help non-psychologist colleagues understand the breadth of the work referred to above (the full document is available from the authors on request). The 11 areas were chosen to map, as closely as possible, clinical neuropsychological work onto the document Matrix 2011: A Guide to Delivering Evidence-Based Psychological Thera- pies in Scotland (NHS Education for Scotland, 2011). ...

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... sought to understand what non-psycholo- gist colleagues consider to be the most important of the clinical neuropsychologist's work activities in the acute neuroscience setting, from among those outlined in Figure 1. We anticipated that opinions might differ according to colleagues' professional backgrounds, because different pro- fessions may focus on, or prioritise, particular aspects of patient functioning. ...

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... sclerosis, brain tumour). The sur- vey, full details of which are available on request, set out the 11 key areas of clinical neuropsycho- logical work in the acute neuroscience setting (see Figure 1). Respondents were asked to rate the level of importance of each key work area for the patients they work with using a 10-point scale ranging from 0 ('of minimum importance') to 10 ('of maximum importance'). ...