OBJECTIVES To use the World Health Organization's International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health as a framework to identify and to evaluate wheelchair-specific outcome instruments that are useful for measuring activity and participation. DATA SOURCES CINHAL, PsychInfo, EMBASE, Google Scholar, Dissertation Abstracts Medline databases, and conference proceedings. STUDY SEL...

BACKGROUND Clinical networks are being used widely to facilitate large system transformation in healthcare, by engagement of stakeholders throughout the health system. However, there are no available instruments that measure engagement in these networks. METHODS The study purpose was to develop and assess the measurement properties of a multiprofessional tool to measure engagement in clinical...

Clinical tolerance to the myelographic contrast media metrizamide and iopamidol was evaluated in 26 and 30 patients, respectively, with a battery of neuropsychologic tests before and after myelography in a randomized, double-blind prospective study. Twenty hospitalized patients with chronic back pain were also studied before and after computed tomography to serve as controls relative to the gro...

The Self-Efficacy in Infant Care Scale (SICS) is a self-administered measure to assess maternal judgments about the ability to care for the baby during the first year of life. The SICS was initially composed of 67 items and was tested on 397 Thai mothers with infants < 12 months old. The test demonstrated adequate internal consistency and test-retest reliability. Factor analysis yielded 42 item...