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Multidisciplinary studies of illness in aged persons VI. Comparison study of rehabilitated and nonrehabilitated patients with fracture of the hip.
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The methodologic importance of the study was discussed, namely, its role in demonstrating the utility of measures of function for critical studies of rehabilitative care.About:
This article is published in Journal of Chronic Diseases.The article was published on 1962-10-01. It has received 30 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Activities of daily living & Rehabilitation.read more
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Studies of illness in the aged. the index of adl: a standardized measure of biological and psychosocial function.
TL;DR: The Index of ADL as discussed by the authors was developed to study results of treatment and prognosis in the elderly and chronically ill. Grades of the Index summarize over-all performance in bathing, dressing, going to toilet, transferring, continence, and feeding.
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A Measure of Primary Sociobiological Functions
TL;DR: The Index of Independence in Activities of Daily Living appears to be based on functions of sociobiological primacy, and has been used to produce predictive information about chronic conditions and to evaluate the benefits of long-term services.
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Equating health status measures with item response theory: illustrations with functional status items.
TL;DR: By using item response theory to equate and calibrate a large number of activities of daily living on the same scale, this work was able to better understand the structure and order of domain-specific items to each other, as well as the interrelations among items across the ability continuum.
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Collaboration improves the quality of care: methodological challenges and evidence from US health care research.
TL;DR: Past research efforts to examine whether interprofessional collaboration improves the outcomes of care are summarized and the continuing conceptual and methodological challenges associated with efforts to examined this relationship are articulated.
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Identifying a Short Functional Disability Screen for Older Persons
TL;DR: Applied item response theory methods were applied to assess the responses of community-dwelling elders in the 1993 Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey to 11 IADL/ADL items to identify abbreviated sets of items that would select the highest proportion of persons with I ADL/ ADL disability.
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On the methodology of investigations of etiologic factors in chronic diseases.
J. Yerushalmy,Carroll E. Palmer +1 more
TL;DR: Progress in the identification of causative factors in the important chronic diseases will depend to a great extent on the ability to utilize observations and on the development of more rigorous methods and rules of analysis which will increase the likelihood of correct interpretation and will minimize the effect of extraneous factors inherent in uncontrolled observations.
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Multidisciplinary studies of illness in aged persons 1II. A new classification of functional status in activities of daily living
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