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Edwards, S. G., Playford, E. Diane, Hobart, J. C. and Thompson, A. J. (2002) Comparison of physician outcome measures and patients' perception of benefits of inpatient neurorehabilitation. BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 324 . p. 1493. ISSN 0959-8138.
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Official URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12077034
Abstract
Rehabilitation aims to reduce the impact of disease, within the limitations imposed by available resources and the underlying disease.1 Measuring rehabilitation is difficult.2 Rating scales of impairment, disability, and handicap are often used but only partially reflect the rehabilitation process, tending to be “physician oriented.”3 Rehabilitation is a patient based educational process working towards self management.2 Therefore, patient oriented measures should be used, as it is only the patients themselves who truly appreciate the impact of their illness,3 and the benefits from rehabilitation. The visual analogue scale is a patient based measuring tool that can be used to answer a variety of questions.
We evaluated how much the traditional, physician oriented measures reflect the benefit perceived by patients, as measured on a visual analogue scale, within the setting of a neurorehabilitation inpatient unit.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences > Social Science & Systems in Health (SSSH) Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School |
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| Journal or Publication Title: | BMJ (Clinical research ed.) | ||||
| Publisher: | B M J Group | ||||
| ISSN: | 0959-8138 | ||||
| Official Date: | 2002 | ||||
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| Volume: | 324 | ||||
| Page Range: | p. 1493 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||
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