PURPOSE To determine the physiotherapy-related needs of people with stroke at discharge, 6 months after discharge, and 1 year after discharge from hospital, and to examine the results stratified by participants' acute Functional Independence Measure (FIM) scores. METHODS A total of 241 adults with recent stroke were recruited into this longitudinal cohort study. As well as participating in a ...

Membrane-permeabilizing peptide antibiotics are an underutilized weapon in the battle against drug-resistant microorganisms. This is true, in part, because of the bottleneck caused by the lack of explicit design principles and the paucity of simple high-throughput methods for selection. In this work, we characterize the requirements for broad-spectrum antimicrobial activity by membrane permeabi...

OBJECTIVE Twenty-one new activities of daily living (ADL) tasks were evaluated for the validity of their inclusion into the Assessment of Motor and Process Skills (AMPS). METHOD Data from 1,484 participants who performed at least one new AMPS task were analyzed to determine whether the new tasks (a) fit the AMPS many-faceted Rasch (MFR) model and (b) increase the range of the AMPS motor and p...

The patient´s survival estimate is important for clinical decision-making, especially in frail patients with multimorbidities. We aimed to develop a multidimensional geriatric prognosis index (GPI) for 3- and 5-year mortality in community-dwelling elderly and to validate the GPI in a separate hospital-based population. The GPI was constructed using data for 988 participants in the Korean Longit...

hospitals as the centers that consume the most resource of health system, based on their function have difference performance and efficiency. the purpose of this study was to assess the efficiency of ahvaz hospitals using data envelopment analysis (dea) method. this study is a descriptive-analytic study that assessed the efficiency of teaching and nonteaching hospitals in ahvaz using dea in 200...

Probabilistic measurement models offered by Rasch and others can be used to link different functional assessment instruments into a single measurement system. This study assessed 54 subjects (diagnoses: 8 brain injuries, 7 neuromuscular, 22 musculoskeletal, 7 spinal cord, 10 stroke) admitted to a free-standing rehabilitation hospital at admission and discharge using both the Functional Independ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Using confirmatory factor analysis, this study evaluates the relative impact of motor, cognitive, and perceptual deficits on functional autonomy with 100 elderly (aged 55 to 79 years) victims of stroke. METHODS Two different approaches were used for measuring functional autonomy: the Functional Autonomy Measurement System (Système de Mesure de l'Autonomie Fonctionnelle ...

The role of the occupational therapist working in the school system is to facilitate a student's task performance or ability to do purposeful and meaningful activities so that the student benefits from the educational experience. To fulfill this role, occupational therapists need assessments that address functional performance issues in the classroom and provide information for effective progra...

abstract background and objectives: study of clinical competence in nursing helps determine the quality of health care delivered to patients. given the priority of observance of principles over caretaking and necessity of spirituality existence at the core of health care provision, this study was conducted to investigate clinical competence and its relationship with professional ethics and spir...

background &aime;: consider to importance of happiness in life, the research was accomplished to qualify role of gender, native, religiosity and family function in prediction of students' happiness of tabriz medical science university. material and methods: this research was correlation-descriptive study. the statistical population included all students of tabriz medical science university who ...