The fifth edition of the addiction severity index

Measuring Health: A Guide to Rating Scales and Questionnaires

Defining consensus: A systematic review recommends methodologic criteria for reporting of Delphi studies

Background and Purpose—One in 3 individuals will experience a stroke, dementia or both. Moreover, twice as many individuals will have cognitive impairment short of dementia as either stroke or dementia. The commonly used stroke scales do not measure cognition, while dementia criteria focus on the late stages of cognitive impairment, and are heavily biased toward the diagnosis of Alzheimer disease. No commonly agreed standards exist for identifying and describing individuals with cognitive impairment, particularly in the early stages, and especially with cognitive impairment related to vascular factors, or vascular cognitive impairment. Methods—The National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) and the Canadian Stroke Network (CSN) convened researchers in clinical diagnosis, epidemiology, neuropsychology, brain imaging, neuropathology, experimental models, biomarkers, genetics, and clinical trials to recommend minimum, common, clinical and research standards for the description and study of vascular cognitive impairment. Results—The results of these discussions are reported herein. Conclusions—The development of common standards represents a first step in a process of use, validation and refinement. Using the same standards will help identify individuals in the early stages of cognitive impairment, will make studies comparable, and by integrating knowledge, will accelerate the pace of progress. (Stroke. 2006;37:2220-2241.)

http://www.365heart.com/meeting/naozuzhong/pdf/vci.pdf

National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke–Canadian Stroke Network Vascular Cognitive Impairment Harmonization Standards

In examining how researchers assess the quality of individual studies in systematic reviews about prognosis, the authors found that appraisal of the quality of the article, a necessary step in syst...

Evaluation of the quality of prognosis studies in systematic reviews.

Motor recovery after stroke: A systematic review of the literature

Recovery of standing balance in postacute stroke patients: a rehabilitation cohort study.

General insight into the frequency and gravity of cognitive dysfunctions following stroke and its influencing factors is still lacking. With an extensive neuropsychological battery 229 patients who had suffered a stroke were assessed. More than 70% of the patients showed a marked slowness of information processing, whereas at least 40% of all patients had difficulty with memory, visuospatial and constructive tasks, language skills, and arithmetic. A significant effect was found for side and type of stroke, gender, and the presence of aphasia. No significant effect was found for cortical versus subcortical lesions, having one versus multiple strokes, having lowered consciousness on admission, the presence of risk factors, a paresis of the hand, or the interval between the stroke and the neuropsychological assessment.

Cognitive decline following stroke: A comprehensive study of cognitive decline following stroke.

The Addiction Severity Index: reliability and validity in a Dutch addict population.

https://www.archives-pmr.org/article/S0003-9993(96)90001-5/pdf

Jacques van Limbeek

Papers

Motor recovery after stroke: A systematic review of the literature

Recovery of standing balance in postacute stroke patients: a rehabilitation cohort study.

Cognitive decline following stroke: A comprehensive study of cognitive decline following stroke.

The Addiction Severity Index: reliability and validity in a Dutch addict population.

Identification of static and dynamic postural instability following traumatic brain injury