Patient Factors: patient’s needs, best interests, consent, acuity, stability, and complexity of
condition(s) including physical, mental and social aspects, predictability of change of condition(s),
patient’s ability to direct care and communicate needs
Physiotherapist Assistants Factors: knowledge, skill, and experience with task, experience
with patient population and environment; working relationship with the physiotherapist and other
team members, maturity, judgment, dependability, and level of trust
Environmental Factors: availability of resources, degree of independence or isolation, size of
caseload or workload demands
Physiotherapy Treatment Factors: technical skill required, advanced training and complexity of
tasks, potential risk of harm related to intervention
Physiotherapist Factors: ability to provide supervision, scope of practice, sphere of competence