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... Hierarchical Assessment of Balance and Mobility (HABAM) [26,27] and the PhysicalPerformance Mobility Examination (PPME) [29]. Figure 1shows a flow diagram of the inclusion and exclusion of instruments ... reports of the responsiveness to change of the PPMEwere identified.Acceptability and feasibilityMacKnight et al. [41] reported the acceptability and feasi-bility of the PPME in a sample of 19 ... measurement error and MCID for the EMS, HABAM and PPME scores. The limit of agreement is a more conservative estimate of measure-ment error than the MDC90. The MDC90 and limit of agreement provide...
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... tocompare the content of both generic and disease-specific instruments [9,10]. The purpose of this study was to buildon the work by Perenboom and Chorus [2] and examinethe content ofinstruments measuring ... influence of health and the environmentwhich may help determine the causes of the participationrestrictions and also provide potentially 'pure measures' of participation. None of the instruments ... (page 578) and so differentresults would be obtained using this definition.Content of the Participation Instruments Although all the instruments cover six to eight of the nineactivities and participation...
... Wyrwich and I agree on the funda-mentals: discriminative HRQoL instruments should bevalidated andof sufficient reliability for the task at hand;they should provide interpretable data; and thus ... citation purposes)Health and Quality of Life OutcomesOpen AccessLetter to the EditorDiscrimination and reliability: equal partners? Understanding the role of discriminative instruments in HRQoL ... matthew.hankins@kcl.ac.ukAbstractA response to Norman GR 'Discrimination and reliability: equal partners?' and Wyrwich KW'Understanding the role of discriminative instruments in HRQoL research: can Ferguson's...
... Characteristics of validated survey instruments tomeasure attitudes of healthcare students and professionals towardspatients with physical disability. Table of the characteristics of Lam et al. Journal of ... Anotherstrength of this study is the use of rigorous methodol-ogy, i.e. us ing a very sensitive and comprehensive searchstrategy, a duplicate and independent selection process, and a duplicate and independent ... strongdeterminants of attitudes.This study has a number of strengths. This is the firstsystematic review ofinstruments validated for measuringattitudes o f healthcare students and professionalstowards...
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