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An extended activities of daily living scale for stroke patients
FM Nouri,Nadina B. Lincoln +1 more
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The extended ADL scale could be used as a postal questionnaire to assist in the follow-up of patients discharged home after a stroke and can be monitored and patients can also be compared on the basis of their scale score.Abstract:
A ranked assessment of daily living (ADL) scale has been developed to assess activities which may be important to stroke patients who have been discharged home. A questionnaire incorporating 22 ADL activities in four sections was sent by post to 80 consecutively registered stroke patients. Gutmann scaling was carried out on the returned questionnaires, producing acceptable coefficients of reproducibility and scalability. The revised questionnaire was then sent to 20 stroke patients. The same patients were sent an identical questionnaire two weeks later. The overall level of agreement between the two assessments was satisfactory. The extended ADL scale could therefore be used as a postal questionnaire to assist in the follow-up of patients discharged home after a stroke. Due to the scaling properties of the assessment, patient's progress can be monitored and patients can also be compared on the basis of their scale score.read more
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The development of a questionnaire assessing the outcome of memory rehabilitation for people with acquired brain injury
TL;DR: This thesis was conducted within the context of the pilot and main phase of a randomised controlled trial evaluating the effectiveness of memory rehabilitation for people experiencing memory problems following traumatic brain injury, stroke and multiple sclerosis.
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Increasing the Sensitivity of Functional Status Assessment in the Preclinical Range (Normal to Mild Cognitive Impairment): Exploring the IADL-Extended Approach.
Robert A. Fieo,Yaakov Stern +1 more
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ESCAPS study protocol: a feasibility randomised controlled trial of 'Early electrical stimulation to the wrist extensors and wrist flexors to prevent the post-stroke complications of pain and contractures in the paretic arm'.
Joanna Fletcher-Smith,Dawn-Marie Walker,Nikola Sprigg,Marilyn James,Marion F Walker,Kate Allatt,Rajnikant Mehta,Anand Pandyan +7 more
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Evaluating Routine Variability of Daily Activities in Smart Homes with Image Complexity Measures
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The diagnosis of amnestic mild cognitive impairment by combining the characteristics of brain functional network and support vector machine classifier
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