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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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Functional status measurement in COPD: a review of available methods and their feasibility in primary care
Janwillem W. H. Kocks,Guus M. Asijee,Guus M. Asijee,Ioanna Tsiligianni,Huib A. M. Kerstjens,Thys van der Molen +5 more
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Factors relating to depression after stroke.
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Family-led rehabilitation after stroke in India (ATTEND): a randomised controlled trial
Richard I. Lindley,Craig S. Anderson,Laurent Billot,Anne Forster,Maree L. Hackett,Lisa A. Harvey,Stephen Jan,Qiang Li,Hueiming Liu,Peter Langhorne,Pallab K. Maulik,Gudlavalleti V S Murthy,Mirella Walker,Jeyaraj D. Pandian,Mohammed Alim,Cynthia Felix,Anuradha Syrigapu,Deepak Kumar Tugnawat,Shweta J Verma,BR Shamanna,Graeme J. Hankey,Amanda G. Thrift,Julie Bernhardt,Man Mohan Mehndiratta,L Jeyaseelan,P Donnelly,D Byrne,S Steley,V Santhosh,S Chilappagari,Jayanthi Mysore,Jayanta Roy,Madakasira V. Padma,Lydia John,Sanjith Aaron,N C Borah,Pamidimukkala Vijaya,Subhash Kaul,Dheeraj Khurana,P N Sylaja,D S Halprashanth,B K Madhusudhan,Vivek Nambiar,Sachin Sureshbabu,M C Khanna,G S Narang,D Chakraborty,S S Chakraborty,B Biswas,S Kaura,H Koundal,Puneetpal Singh,A Andrias,D S Thambu,I Ramya,James George,A T Prabhakar,P Kirubakaran,P Anbalagan,M Ghose,K Bordoloi,P Gohain,N M Reddy,K V Reddy,T N M Rao,Suvarna Alladi,V R R Jalapu,K Manchireddy,A Rajan,S Mehta,C Katoch,B.C. Das,A Jangir,Tanvir Kaur,Sujesh Sreedharan,S. Sivasambath,S Dinesh,B.S. Shibi,A Thangaraj,A Karunanithi,S M S Sulaiman,K Dehingia,K Das,C Nandini,Nihal Thomas,T S Dhanya,N Thomas,R Krishna,V Aneesh,S Khullar,S Thouman,Ivy Sebastian +91 more
TL;DR: The results do not support investment in new stroke rehabilitation services that shift tasks to family caregivers, and a future avenue of research should be to investigate the effects of task shifting to health-care assistants or team-based community care.
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