New treatment options may lead to an increased interest in using reliable and sensitive instruments assess health-related quality of life people with alopecia areata (AA). The purpose this paper is present current knowledge about assessment AA. dermatology-specific Dermatology Life Quality Index (DLQI) was the most widely reported instrument used Three AA-specific (Alopecia Areata Symptom Impac...

This study demonstrates the use of the interRAI assessment instruments to examine mental health symptoms in children and adults within residential and in-patient care settings. Regardless of service setting, children exhibited more harm to self and others than adults. Children in adult in-patient beds were more likely to exhibit suicide and self-harm and less likely to exhibit harm to others co...

Over the years, Music Therapy has focused on conducting several clinical studies to verify treatment efficacy. However, only in last two decades amount of have increased based validation specific assessment instruments. The basis for validating these instruments its origin psychometry. Psychometry, turn, been influenced by a secular practice that it would be possible make inferences about popul...

Background. This paper aimed to identify condition-specific patient-reported outcome measures used in clinical trials among people with wrist osteoarthritis and summarise empirical peer-reviewed evidence supporting their reliability, validity, and responsiveness to change. Methods. A systematic review of randomised controlled trials among people with wrist osteoarthritis was undertaken. Studies...

Simulating surgical procedures is still a complex challenge. Either modeling methods or simulators have to take into account specific geometries and properties of the patient organs. In this paper, a new soft tissue modeling method dedicated to prostate surgical interventions is presented. The chosen medical application requires the modeling of a complex anatomical environment including intrica...

This paper presents a collaborative platform developed to allow the communication between surgeons and engineers in process of designing patient-specific surgical instruments. To date, only few applications are available collaboratively create instruments from medical 3D models, mostly dedicated expert CAD modelers. makes preoperative planning time-consuming inefficient limiting usability makin...

Condition-specific health status measures are commonly used as outcome measures in clinical trials and to assess patient progress in routine clinical practice. The expert panel that met to discuss this special issue of Spine recommended that, when possible, a condition-specific measure for back pain should be chosen from two widely used measures, the Roland–Morris Disability Questionnaire (RDQ)...

OBJECTIVE Patient reported outcomes (PRO) are considered central outcome measures for both clinical trials and observational studies in rheumatology. More sophisticated statistical models, including item response theory (IRT) and computerized adaptive testing (CAT), will enable critical evaluation and reconstruction of currently utilized PRO instruments to improve measurement precision while re...

In this paper, we present several aspects of the recent project PROREOP, in which a new prognosis system is developed for optimizing patient-specific preoperative surgical planning for the human skeletal system. We address verification and validation assessment in PROREOP with special emphasis on numerical accuracy and performance. To assess numerical accuracy, we propose to employ graded instr...

BACKGROUND Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) may provide valuable information to clinicians and patients when choosing initial antiretroviral therapy. OBJECTIVE To identify and classify PRO instruments used to measure treatment effects in clinical trials evaluating NNRTIs. METHODS We conducted a structured literature review using PubMed to identify NNRTI trials published from March 2003 to F...