Kathryn E. Roach, PhD, PT; Alison A. Linberg, DPT, ATC; Michele A. Raya, PhD, PT, SCS, ATC Health outcome measures are used to assess treatment effectiveness. Historically, survival was the most important health outcome. Treatments were assessed based on whether the patient lived or died. Now in the 21st century, treatments for many injuries and illnesses are so effective that many, if not most...

OBJECTIVE The goal was to create a functional status outcome measure for large outcome studies that is well defined, quantitative, rapid, reliable, minimally dependent on subjective assessments, and applicable to hospitalized pediatric patients across a wide range of ages and inpatient environments. METHODS Functional Status Scale (FSS) domains of functioning included mental status, sensory f...

T he short history of hearing aid fitting can be divided into three eras . The first era, from roughly 1946 to about 1970, might be described as the era of the PB list. A fitting was successful when the aided speech recognition score for single-syllable words was optimized. The second era, from the 1970s to the present, might be described as the era of the engineering solution . A fitting was s...

STUDY DESIGN  Retrospective review. INTRODUCTION  Lumbar radiculopathy and claudicant leg pain are common degenerative spinal conditions often treated by elective microdiscectomy or decompression. Published outcome data for these procedures have focused on improvement in pain scores, and not on grounded functional outcome or depression scores.1,2,3 Moreover, depression is considered by many s...

Background/Objective: The aim of the present preliminary study was to assess the demographic, clinical, paraclinical, microbiological, echocardiographic, and therapeutic profile as well as in-hospital outcome of patients with infective endocarditis at a referral center for various infectious diseases in Iran.Methods: Required demographic, clinical, plausible complications and paraclinical data ...

It is important to identify unknown and unquantified benefits and risks of therapeutic intervention that are reflected in the quality of life. This is especially important when the benefit : risk analysis is not clearly in favour of treatment. Quality of life is defined and target areas identified. The steps in the measurements of quality of life are discussed, including the validity, repeatabi...

BACKGROUND Cognitive deficits are a core feature of schizophrenia. These deficits are not caused by medication or symptoms, and have a dramatic negative effect on real-world functioning. AIMS To critically examine a selection of the most common batteries used to assess cognition in schizophrenia. METHOD Literature review of cognitive assessment batteries for use in schizophrenia. RESULTS ...

Analyses of the data of the National Institute of Mental Health-sponsored Treatment of Depression Collaborative Research Program have primarily examined the effects of types of treatment and patient characteristics on outcome, but scant attention has been directed toward evaluating the contributions of the therapist. With an aggregate of residualized therapeutic change scores of the 5 primary o...

purpose: to report the efficacy of a single intravitreal injection of bevacizumab (ivb) alone or in com-bination with intravitreal triamcinolone acetonide (ivt) versus macular laser photocoagulation (mpc) as primary treatment for diabetic macular edema (dme). methods: this randomized three-arm clinical trial included 103 eyes of 97 patients with clinically significant dme and no previous treatm...