Observe patients' attendance, progress, attitudes, and accomplishments and record and maintain information in client records.

“Observe patients' attendance, progress, attitudes, and accomplishments and record and maintain information in client records.” is a core task performed by Occupational Therapy Aides. Among the occupation's 15 rated tasks, workers place it 12th by importance (#4 most important). About 87% 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.

• Monitor health conditions of humans or animals. in Monitoring Processes, Materials, or Surroundings
• 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.

• 0.002% share of AI-use records mapped to this task
• 90% of that use is work-related
• Most common interaction: task iteration
• Average autonomy of the AI: 2.9 (1–5; higher = more autonomous)
• 95% 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.

Working with AI vs. handing it off

Of the AI conversations mapped to this task, the split between people working alongside AI and people delegating the task to it.

How people interact with AI on this task

Other tasks in this occupation

• Encourage patients and attend to their physical needs to facilitate the attainment of therapeutic goals. · importance 4.5
• Report to supervisors or therapists, verbally or in writing, on patients' progress, attitudes, attendance, and accomplishments. · importance 4.5
• Evaluate the living skills and capacities of physically, developmentally, or emotionally disabled clients. · importance 4.4
• Prepare and maintain work area, materials, and equipment and maintain inventory of treatment and educational supplies. · importance 4.3
• Transport patients to and from the occupational therapy work area. · importance 4.1
• Instruct patients and families in work, social, and living skills, the care and use of adaptive equipment, and other skills to facilitate home and work adjustment to disability. · importance 4.1
• Assist occupational therapists in planning, implementing, and administering therapy programs to restore, reinforce, and enhance performance, using selected activities and special equipment. · importance 4.1
• Demonstrate therapy techniques, such as manual and creative arts and games. · importance 4.0
• Manage intradepartmental infection control and equipment security. · importance 4.0
• Perform clerical, administrative, and secretarial duties, such as answering phones, restocking and ordering supplies, filling out paperwork, and scheduling appointments. · importance 4.0
• Supervise patients in choosing and completing work assignments or arts and crafts projects. · importance 3.8
• Adjust and repair assistive devices and make adaptive changes to other equipment and to environments. · importance 3.5
• Accompany patients on outings, providing transportation when necessary. · importance 3.3
• Assist educational specialists or clinical psychologists in administering situational or diagnostic tests to measure client's abilities or progress. · importance 3.1

See all tasks on the Occupational Therapy Aides 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  = {Observe patients' attendance, progress, attitudes, and accomplishments and record and maintain information in client records.},
  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},
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