OBJECTIVE To investigate the inter-rater reliability of the Early Functional Abilities (EFA) scale. DESIGN An observational study of inter-rater reliability in an open cohort. PATIENTS Twenty-four patients with traumatic brain injury in need of medical or surgical intervention in the early rehabilitation section of the intensive care unit. METHODS The EFA was assessed by 4 different profe...

objective: the sheehan disability scale (sds) assesses disability in four domains of home management, work responsibilities, close relationships and social life. the main objective of this study was to develop the persian version of the sds. method: two steps of field work followed the persian translation and cultural adaptation of the tool: first, the internal consistency and convergent validi...

Sleep stage classification is of great importance in sleep analysis, which provides information for the diagnosis and monitoring sleep-related conditions. To accurately analyze structure under comfortable conditions, many studies have applied deep learning to staging based on single-lead electrocardiograms (ECGs). However, there still room improvement inter-subject classification. In this paper...

PURPOSE To analyze the intra- and inter-rater agreement for visual analog scale and numerical scale in task of sustained vowel and to determine numerical cutoff points to visual analog scale corresponding to the degrees of the numeric scale. METHODS We selected 205 samples of the usual task of the sustained vowel /a/. Six voice specialists rated the overall degree of vocal deviation, first by...