Background In many countries, the need for physical therapists to use standardised
measures has been recognised and is recommended in clinical practice guidelines …

Purpose. To evaluate the psychometric and administrative properties of outcome measures
in the ICF Participation category, which are used in stroke rehabilitation research and …

Background: Use of outcome measures (OMs) in adult neurologic physical therapy is
essential for monitoring changes in a patient's status over time, quantifying observations and …

Background Standardized instruments for measuring patients' activity limitations and
participation restrictions have been advocated for use by rehabilitation professionals for …

Physiotherapy is arriving at a critical point in its history. Since World War I, physiotherapy
has been one of the largest allied health professions and the established provider of …

Objectives: To compare the reliability, validity, and responsiveness of the motor subscale of
the functional independence measure (FIM), the original 10 item Barthel index (BI), and the …

Purpose: The aim of this work is to examine the relationship between aspects of objective
and perceived housing and aspects of healthy aging, defined as independence in daily …

Introduction: Outcome measures are key to tailor rehabilitation goals to the stroke patient's
individual needs and to monitor poststroke recovery. The large number of available outcome …

Variables present in an individual, for example, independence, pain, balance, fatigue,
depression and knowledge, cannot be measured directly (hence the term “latent” variables) …

Background and Purpose The use of standardized outcome measures (OMs) can support
clinicians' development of appropriate care plans, guide educators in curricular decisions …