Comment: Clinical outcome assessments in transition [PDF]
The Response Evaluation in Neurofibromatosis and Schwannomatosis (REiNS) International Collaboration systematically evaluated existing patient-reported outcome (PRO) measures of pain intensity, pain interference, and physical functioning as potential primary and secondary outcomes for neurofibromatosis trials.
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Creating clinical trial designs that incorporate clinical outcome assessments [PDF]
Clinical outcome assessments (COAs) are increasingly being used in determining the efficacy of new treatment regimens. This was typified in the recent use of a symptom-based instrument combined with an organ-based measure of response for the approval of ruxolitinib in myelofibrosis. There are challenges in incorporating these COAs into clinical trials,
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Occupational therapy for people with psychotic conditions in community settings: a pilot randomized controlled trial [PDF]
OBJECTIVES: To investigate the effectiveness of a long established intervention, occupational therapy for people with psychotic conditions, and to inform future research designs. DESIGN: A pilot randomized controlled trial.
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Background Prompt recognition of delirium is the first key step in its proper management. A previous study has demonstrated that nurses’ delirium screening using the usual paper version assessment tool has no effect on clinical outcomes.
Jiamin Wang, Sen Niu, Ying Wu
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Clinical measurements versus patient-reported outcomes: analysis of the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons physician assessment in patients undergoing reverse total shoulder arthroplasty. [PDF]
BackgroundThe American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons (ASES) score is composed of a patient-reported portion and a physician assessment. Although the patient-reported score is frequently used to assess postoperative outcomes after shoulder arthroplasty, no ...
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Treatments outside of a clinical setting may be managed independently by the pediatric patient, independently by a caregiver, or by the patient and caregiver together.
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Clinical Outcome Assessments: Conceptual Foundation—Report of the ISPOR Clinical Outcomes Assessment – Emerging Good Practices for Outcomes Research Task Force [PDF]
An outcome assessment, the patient assessment used in an endpoint, is the measuring instrument that provides a rating or score (categorical or continuous) that is intended to represent some aspect of the patient's health status. Outcome assessments are used to define efficacy endpoints when developing a therapy for a disease or condition. Most efficacy
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The present study aimed to evaluate the influence of manual expertise on static computer-aided implantology (s-CAI) in terms of accuracy and operative timings. After the cone-beam CT (CBCT) scanning of eleven mandibular models, a full-arch rehabilitation
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Reliability reconsidered: Cronbach's alpha and paediatric assessment in occupational therapy [PDF]
Background / aim: Using reliable outcome measures is a necessity for the occupational therapy profession in enabling valid assessments of clients. Although Cronbach’s alpha is the most widely applied index of internal consistency reliability, there are
Spiliotopoulou, G
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Can this marriage be saved? Personality assessment and clinical psychology in the 21st century [PDF]
This article examines the role of psychological assessment in modern clinical psychology. Based upon survey research, it is argued that there has been a decline in the importance of assessment in practice despite the recent increase in opportunities ...
Smith Bruce L.
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