Review physician's referral and patient's medical records to help determine diagnosis and physical therapy treatment required.

“Review physician's referral and patient's medical records to help determine diagnosis and physical therapy treatment required.” is a core task performed by Physical Therapists. Among the occupation's 24 rated tasks, workers place it 14th by importance (#11 most important). About 100% of workers say it is relevant to their job.

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Analyze health or medical data. in Analyzing Data or Information

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E2. Exposure with tools — software built on top of a language model (not the model alone) could cut the time by at least half.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 0.50. Automation potential label: T2.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Plan, prepare, or carry out individually designed programs of physical treatment to maintain, improve, or restore physical functioning, alleviate pain, or prevent physical dysfunction in patients. · importance 4.8
• Perform and document an initial exam, evaluating data to identify problems and determine a diagnosis prior to intervention. · importance 4.8
• Record prognosis, treatment, response, and progress in patient's chart or enter information into computer. · importance 4.7
• Evaluate effects of treatment at various stages and adjust treatments to achieve maximum benefit. · importance 4.7
• Instruct patient and family in treatment procedures to be continued at home. · importance 4.7
• Confer with the patient, medical practitioners, or appropriate others to plan, implement, or assess the intervention program. · importance 4.7
• Administer manual exercises, massage, or traction to help relieve pain, increase patient strength, or decrease or prevent deformity or crippling. · importance 4.7
• Obtain patients' informed consent to proposed interventions. · importance 4.7
• Test and measure patient's strength, motor development and function, sensory perception, functional capacity, or respiratory or circulatory efficiency and record data. · importance 4.6
• Direct, supervise, assess, and communicate with supportive personnel. · importance 4.6
• Identify and document goals, anticipated progress, and plans for reevaluation. · importance 4.6
• Provide information to the patient about the proposed intervention, its material risks and expected benefits, and any reasonable alternatives. · importance 4.4
• Provide educational information about physical therapy or physical therapists, injury prevention, ergonomics, or ways to promote health. · importance 4.4
• Inform patients and refer to appropriate practitioners when diagnosis reveals findings outside physical therapy. · importance 4.4

See all tasks on the Physical Therapists page.

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

@misc{singulariki-task-369,
  title  = {Review physician's referral and patient's medical records to help determine diagnosis and physical therapy treatment required.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/tasks/task-369}
}