OBJECTIVE To investigate the functional outcomes of patients with anoxic brain injury (AnBI) compared with control patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI) during inpatient rehabilitation. DESIGN Matched case-controlled design. SETTING Inpatient neurorehabilitation program. PARTICIPANTS Fifteen patients with AnBI and 15 patients with TBI. METHODS Data of 15 patients with a primary dia...

OBJECTIVE To assess the relationships between independence levels of single motor-related Functional Independence Measure (FIM) items and summed FIM-motor scores of patients with hemiplegia after stroke. DESIGN For each patient FIM scores were assessed 4 times during hospitalization. Ordinal logistic analyses were performed on group data. SUBJECTS Fifty patients with hemiplegia after stroke...

Jeong S, Inoue Y, Kondo K, Matsumoto D, Shiraishi N. Formula for predicting FIM for stroke patients at discharge from an acute ward or convalescent rehabilitation ward. Jpn J Compr Rehabil Sci 2014; 5: 19-25. Objective: To develop formulas for predicting Functional Independence Measure (FIM) at the time of discharge from an acute or convalescent hospital ward using multicenter data. Methods: Da...

INTRODUCTION Rehabilitation improves functional outcomes, but there is little data on the profiles and outcomes of patients undergoing inpatient rehabilitation in Singapore. The aims of this paper were to document the clinical characteristics and functional outcomes, using the Functional Independence Measure (FIM), of all patients admitted to an inpatient rehabilitation unit in a tertiary teach...

This study determined whether the Functional Independence Measure (FIM) and the Frenchay Activities Index (FAI) could be used together as a more comprehensive score to assess the activities of daily living (ADL) in stroke survivors. Subjects were recruited from stroke patients consecutively admitted to the inpatient neurology or rehabilitation department at a university hospital in southern Tai...

The functional independence measure (FIM) is used to determine the degree of disability that patients experience and the progress that they make through programs of medical rehabilitation. Rasch analysis is a statistical technique for constructing interval measures from ordinal data that was applied to derive FIM measures. The major factors that are taken into account to produce FIM measures ar...

PURPOSE To examine the FIM™ as an outcome measure at follow-up following discharge from inpatient rehabilitation. METHODS Secondary analysis of the National Rehabilitation Reporting System (NRS) data from 13 facilities across Canada that collected follow-up data between 2001 and 2006. The study sample included all NRS records with a hospital length of stay of at least 3 days, for individuals ...

This article defines the concept of wavelet-based Fisher’s information measure (wavelet FIM) and develops a closed-form expression of this measure for 1/f signals. Wavelet Fisher’s information measure characterizes the complexities associated to 1/f signals and provides a powerful tool for their analysis. Theoretical and experimental studies demonstrate that this quantity is exponentially incre...

OBJECTIVE Very few studies have investigated the predictive value of functional outcome, social outcome and discharge destination in patients with cerebrovascular accident (CVA) with aphasia. The aim of this study was to verify whether aphasia is predictor for outcome in patients with stroke with aphasia. METHODS The study was carried out in 262 patients with primary diagnosis of CVA and apha...

We consider the use of an arbitrary planar array for direction-ofarrival (DOA) estimation, with the commonly used Cramér-Rao Bound (CRB) as a performance measure. By taking advantage of the cosine structure of the array Fisher information matrix (FIM), the FIM is reformulated to be completely represented by three parameters which depend on the array geometry, leading to a new FIM expression tha...