Content - Volume 37, Issue 6

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In this article, we review the limitations of traditional rehabilitation functional outcome instruments currently in use within the rehabilitation field to assess Activity and Participation domains as defined by the International Classification of Function, Disability, and Health. These include a narrow scope of functional outcomes, data incompatibility across instruments, and the precision vs fea ...

Objective: When comparing outcomes of the Functional Independence Measure (FIM™) between patient groups, item characteristics of the FIM™ should be consistent across groups. The purpose of this study was to compare item difficulty of the FIM™ in 3 patient groups with neurological disorders.Subjects: Patients with stroke (n=295), multiple sclerosis (n=150), and tra ...

Objective: To examine the reduction in participation of people who have had a stroke compared with healthy people with normal aging.Design: Participation of people who had a stroke was compared with participation of healthy subjects.Subjects/patients: Forty-six people who had a stroke for 2–4 years and 46 healthy participants matched on age, sex and living environment.Mea ...

Pages: 353-357