Identify and document goals, anticipated progress, and plans for reevaluation.

“Identify and document goals, anticipated progress, and plans for reevaluation.” is a core task performed by Physical Therapists. Among the occupation's 24 rated tasks, workers place it 13th by importance (#12 most important). About 97% 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.

• Develop patient or client care or treatment plans. in Thinking Creatively
• Maintain health or medical records. in Documenting/Recording Information

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E1. Direct exposure — a language model could plausibly cut the time to do this task 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 1.00. Automation potential label: T2.

How AI is actually used on this kind of task

The Anthropic Economic Index observes how people actually use AI on tasks like this one across millions of real conversations.

• 0.003% share of AI-use records mapped to this task
• 100% of interactions still needed a human in the loop

Observed AI use describes people choosing to use AI as a tool on this kind of task today. It is augmentation and assistance, not a measure of jobs replaced.

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
• Review physician's referral and patient's medical records to help determine diagnosis and physical therapy treatment required. · 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
• Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27) Anthropic
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

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

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  title  = {Identify and document goals, anticipated progress, and plans for reevaluation.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27); “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/tasks/task-374}
}