BACKGROUND Evidence on the reliability of clinical tests used for the spinal screening of children and adolescents is currently lacking. The aim of this study was to determine the inter- and intra-rater reliability and measurement error of clinical tests commonly used when screening young spines. METHODS Two experienced chiropractors independently assessed 111 adolescents aged 12-14 years who...

AIM Despite the impact of spasticity, there is a lack of objective, clinically reliable and valid tools for its assessment. This study aims to evaluate the reliability of various performance- and spasticity-related parameters collected with a manually controlled instrumented spasticity assessment in four lower limb muscles in children with cerebral palsy (CP). METHOD The lateral gastrocnemius...

The study investigates the reliability and user feedback about rubrics to evaluate English – Vietnamese consecutive interpreting tests taken by undergraduates at VNU-ULIS created Tran Do (2022). Five raters two experienced three novice ones independently rated ten different provided their on rubrics. results reveal newly is mostly considered user-friendly practical application for evaluation. O...

The purpose of this study was to determine the intra- and inter-rater reliability of classifying the movement patterns of rising from supine to stand in the children with typical development (TD) and mild to moderate developmental delay (DD). Sixty-eight children with TD and 20 children with DD aged 2 through 6 years were videotaped during rising. Two trained pediatric physical therapists indep...

BACKGROUND Validated instruments are needed to evaluate the programmatic impact of Evidence Based Practice (EBP) training and to document the competence of individual trainees. This study aimed to translate the Fresno test into Spanish and subsequently validate it, in order to ensure the equivalence of the Spanish version against the original English version. METHODS Before and after study pe...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the inter-rater reliability of the Early Functional Abilities (EFA) scale. DESIGN An observational study of inter-rater reliability in an open cohort. PATIENTS Twenty-four patients with traumatic brain injury in need of medical or surgical intervention in the early rehabilitation section of the intensive care unit. METHODS The EFA was assessed by 4 different profe...

BACKGROUND Clinical success of total ankle arthroplasty depends heavily on the available information on the morphology of the bones, often obtained from measurements on planar radiographs. The current study aimed to evaluate the intra-rater, inter-rater and inter-session reliability and the validity of radiograph-based measurements of ankle morphology, and to quantify the effects of examiner ex...

BACKGROUND Frailty is a predictor of poor outcomes following many types of operations. We measured thoracic surgeons' accuracy in assessing patient frailty using videos of standardized patients demonstrating signs of physical frailty. We compared their performance to that of geriatrics specialists. METHODS We developed an anchored scale for rating degree of frailty. Reference categories were ...