OBJECTIVES To compare hospital length of stay (LOS) and outcome after stroke between patients in a stroke unit offering combined acute and rehabilitation services and patients treated elsewhere in New South Wales. DESIGN Retrospective audit of two hospital databases (Diagnosis-Related Groups [DRG] database and Australian National Subacute Non-Acute Patient Classification System [AN-SNAP] data...

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...

INTRODUCTION The aim of this study was to prospectively analyze the role of primary hemiarthroplasty in unstable osteoporotic pertrochanteric fractures (AO/OTA Type 31 A2.3), with emphasis given to postoperative Functional Independent Measure (FIM) and Harris Hip Score (HHS). METHODS Fifty-six consecutive patients (average age 78.25 ± 5.45), out of which 24 males (79.29 ± 4.99) and 32 females...

A 79-year-old man was diagnosed with left thalamic hemorrhage. On admission, the Functional Independence Measure (FIM) motor score was 13 points, and the Food Intake Level Scale (FILS) was Level 2, with the patient needing enteral nutrition. Six months after stroke onset, the FIM motor score had improved to 38 points and the dysphagia to FILS Level 7. The patient was able to ingest easy-to-swal...

Mining interesting itemsets is a popular topic in the data mining community. The objective of this problem is to mine all interesting itemsets, with respect to a given interestingness measure. While considerable efforts have being spent on justifying the various interestingness measures, the algorithms that mine them are not quite well-studied, except in the case support, which has resulted in ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The aim of this study was to investigate the associations between tracheostomies, enteral feeding tubes, and indwelling urinary catheters and functional outcome measures, incidence of medical complications, and resource use in an inpatient stroke rehabilitation program. METHODS A cohort of 1553 patients consecutively admitted for inpatient stroke rehabilitation was stud...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the incidence of comorbid diseases and their impact on functional outcome in patients after stroke. DESIGN A prospective study. SUBJECTS A total of 140 patients after stroke. METHODS Comorbidities were assessed with the Liu comorbidity index. Functional independence was evaluated using the Functional Independence Measure (FIM). The relationship between comorbidities ...

PURPOSE The categories of the International Classification of Functioning , Disability and Health (ICF) could potentially be used as components of outcome measures. Literature demonstrating the psychometric properties of ICF categories is limited. OBJECTIVE Determine the agreement and reliability of ICF activities of daily living category scores and compare these to agreement and reliability ...

BACKGROUND The functional independence measure (FIM) is one of the most important assessment instruments for motor and cognitive dependence in rehabilitation medicine; however, there is little data about its confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and ceiling/floor effects from other countries and also in Iranian patients. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to evaluate a two-factor model (motor ...

BACKGROUND Hospitalization over the last one year, an indicator of health service utilization, is an important and costly resource in older adult care. However, data on the relationship between functional status and annual hospitalization among older Chinese people are sparse, particularly for those with and without multimorbidity. In this study,we aimed to examine the association between funct...