The Response of Brain-Damaged Patients to a Rehabilitation Regime

An interdisciplinary tool for assessing patients’ readiness for discharge in the rehabilitation setting*

“…This has been seen to describe an objective overall picture of a patient's status at one point in time, or as a change of status from one time of measuring to the next. Sometimes the means of assessing the ADL has been a check list, although increasingly arbitrary numbers (o, 2, 4) or a simple rating scale have been adopted in an attempt to introduce greater precision (Berry 1975, Christmas et al 1974, Dinnerstein et al 1965, Mahoney & Barthel 1965. Occasionally an accompanying neurological and/or psychological and/or social assessment accompanies the findings.…”

What is Evidence-based Education?

“…The uncertain relationship between how people behave in hospitals and in their own and other environments (i.e. ecological validity) is a well documented problem in the medical and health care literature (Christmas et al, 1974;Andrews and Stewart, 1979;Newcombe and Ratcliff, 1979;Davies and Mehan, 1988;Davies, 1996), with clear parallels with students' educational performances in schools and colleges on the one hand and in the 'real world' on the other. Greenhalgh and Worrall (1997) have recently argued that the concept of context-sensitive medicine is appropriate to describe the skill of applying the findings of research to the demands of everyday clinical practice.…”

Outcome Measurement in a Community Head Injury Service

“…The RHSFI were adapted from Tyerman (1987) and were originally derived from the Wolfison Scales of Functional Independence (WSFI; Christmas, Humphrey, Richardson, & Smith, 1974). There are three scales-mobility, self-care, and cognition function, each containing 10 items rated from "0" (complete dependence) to "10" (independent/normal function).…”