D.L. McLellan

TL;DR: MS has a profound impact on the patients' social roles and their relatives' well-being and severe disability and cognitive impairment are predictors of loss of employment, decline in the standards of living and withdrawal from social and leisure activities among patients and are strong indicators of stress among relatives.

TL;DR: In the sample studied, the BI, F IM, FIM+FAM have similar measurement properties, when examined using traditional psychometric analyses, which highlight the importance of using recognized techniques of scale construction to develop health outcome measures.

TL;DR: People of younger age, with poorer mobility and those unable to return to work, report most unmet needs, which needs to be done within the community in relation to education and the provision of specifically targeted information to facilitate participation and autonomy for people with stroke.

TL;DR: Investigating the effect of increased intensity of rehabilitation therapy provided to brain-injured subjects on the rate at which independence was regained and the duration of hospital admission found no evidence of any ceiling effect of therapeutic intensity.

TL;DR: The SUN is a valuable and practicable tool for the identification of unmet needs for people with multiple sclerosis and their carers and to pilot this in different countries of the European Community.