Although portable instruments have been used in the assessment of sleep disturbance for patients with low back pain (LBP), the accuracy of the instruments in detecting sleep/wake episodes for this population is unknown. This study investigated the criterion validity of two portable instruments (Armband and Actiwatch) for assessing sleep disturbance in patients with LBP. 50 patients with LBP per...

Study Design Literature review. Objective To identify outcomes instruments used in spinal trauma surgery over the past decade, their frequency of use, and usage trends. Methods Five top orthopedic journals were reviewed from 2004 to 2013 for clinical studies of surgical intervention in spinal trauma that reported patient-reported outcome instruments use or neurologic function scale use. Publica...

Objective—Evaluation of known group validity, ecological validity, and test-retest reliability of four domain instruments from the Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement System (PROMIS) in osteoarthritis (OA) patients. Methods—Recruitment of an osteoarthritis sample and a comparison general population (GP) through an Internet survey panel. Pain intensity, pain interference, physical functioning,...

OBJECTIVES Concurrent evaluation of data quality, internal consistency, test-retest reliability and validity of two patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) for measuring functional impairment in hand OA (HOA); the Australian/Canadian Osteoarthritis Hand Index (AUSCAN; 15 items) and the Functional Index of HOA (FIHOA; 10 items). METHODS Patients from an HOA cohort [n=128, mean age 68.6 (s.d....

the will of international community to implement justice and to put an end to the impunity for the perpetrators of crimes against humanity, war crimes and the genocide lead to the establishment of international criminal court (icc). the icc is expected to prosecute and punish international criminals in order to prevent committing such crimes in the future. following the creation of the court in...

This study aimed to analyze nursing research regarding the instruments used to evaluate health literacy in elderly hypertensive patients. This is an integrative literature review done in the databases LILACS, PubMed, CINAHL, Scopus, and Cochrane, in June 2013. The articles, electronically available, were selected for full-text review by nurses, who assessed health literacy of elderly with hyper...

Oh, Deborah M., Joshua M. Kim, Raymond E. Garcia, and Beverly L. Krilowicz. Valid and reliable authentic assessment of culminating student performance in the biomedical sciences. Adv Physiol Educ 29: 83–93, 2005; doi:10.1152/advan.00039.2004.—There is increasing pressure, both from institutions central to the national scientific mission and from regional and national accrediting agencies, on na...

Introduction Recent reviews have described the potential adverse ef­ fects of obesity on quality of life (1,2). Impairments have been reported in physical functioning, including general health (3–6) and bodily pain (7), as well as in psychosocial status (8). In the latter domain, as many as 20% to 30% of individuals who seek weight reduction have been found to suffer from binge eating (9,10) or...

Background: A key component to monitoring and investigating patient QOL is through patient reported health related quality of life (HRQOL) outcome measures. Many instruments have been used to assess HRQOL in bladder cancer and each instrument varies in its development, validation, the context of its usage in the literature and its applicability to certain disease states. Objective: In this revi...