OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to determine if 1.0 Full-time Equivalent (FTE) physical therapy (PT) and 1.0 FTE occupational therapy (OT) per 50 beds resulted in differences in functional status for nursing home residents when compared to 1.0 FTE PT and 1.0 FTE OT per 200 beds. DESIGN Randomized control program evaluation, cost analysis. SETTING Nursing home in the province of Albe...

OBJECTIVE The objective of the present study was to validate sequelae prediction by the Maximal Injury Impairment Score (M-IIS) in comparison with the Functional Independence Measure (FIM) assessed at 1-year follow-up of severe road crash victims. METHODS The study population came from "the Etude et Suivi d'une Population d'Accidentés de la Route dans le Rhône" (ESPARR; Rhône Area Road Crash ...

The occurrence of fim, pap and sfa operons in Escherichia coli isolated from breeders with salpingitis and chicks with omphalitis was evaluated. Analysis of 100 E. coli isolates, by colony hybridization tests, showed that 78 (78%) were fim, one (1%) was sfa, seven (7%) were fim associated with pap, eigth (8%) were fim and sfa, one (1%) was fimpapsfa and five (5%) isolates did not hybridize with...

The virulence of Salmonella typhimurium mutants that were unable to synthesize type 1 fimbriae was tested in a murine typhoid fever model. Nonfimbriated mutants (fim) exhibited a lower 50% lethal dose than a wild-type (fim+) strain and produced significantly higher mortality (fim, 55%; fim+, 37% [P less than 0.002]) in mice that were challenged orally. There was no difference in virulence when ...

Objective To examine the frequency of shoulder pain following stroke. Methods Stroke patient function was evaluated using the Functional Independence Measure (FIM) and Scale for Upper Limb Function in Stroke (SULFS). Function scores were examined and compared between the shoulder pain group (SPG) and the no shoulder pain group (No-SPG). Results A total of 58 patients, 22 women (37.9%), were...

OBJECTIVE To identify the functional status and quality of life of HAM/TSP patients. METHOD We evaluated prospectively 30 HAM/TSP patients (20 females) seen in the Neuroinfection Clinic of the HUGG. The functional capacity was analyzed by the functional independence measure (FIM), the expanded disability status (EDSS) scale and the Osame's motor disability score (OMDS). The quality of life wa...

Variational extremization of the relative Fisher information (RFI, hereafter) is performed. Reciprocity relations, akin to those of thermodynamics are derived, employing the extremal results of the RFI expressed in terms of probability amplitudes. A time independent Schrödinger-like equation (Schrödinger-like link) for the RFI is derived. The concomitant Legendre transform structure (LTS, herea...

The fimbriata (fim) gene of Antirrhinum affects both the identity and arrangement of organs within the flower, and encodes a protein with an F-box motif. We show that FIM associates with a family of proteins, termed FAPs (FIM-associated proteins), that are closely related to human and yeast Skp1 proteins. These proteins form complexes with F-box-containing partners to promote protein degradatio...

This paper addresses the issue of statistical selection bias in multivariate models of functional gain estimated from observational data. Stroke patients from 20 high-volume Veterans Affairs Medical Centers (VAMCs) with acute and subacute inpatient rehabilitation treatment units were observed. Their gains in overall, motor, and cognitive functional status were measured with the use of the Funct...