Comparative effectiveness research in rehabilitation medicine requires the development
and validation of clinically meaningful and scientifically rigorous measurements of patient …

Assessment and outcome measurement is an essential part of medical practice. The term
“assessment” includes techniques and procedures for classification and measurement of a …

Because of its treatment configuration and the assumption of long-term benefit, rehabilitation
has had a continuing interest in the measurement of outcomes. The utility of outcome …

Functional assessments associated with rehabilitation frequently rely on scoring systems
based upon a limited set of categorical values, arranged in order and intended to represent …

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

We describe the use of a mathematical/statistical method (ie, Rasch analysis) to elucidate
biological patterns of disability present in the functional ability of persons undergoing …

Massof RW, Hsu CT, Baker FH, Barnett GD, Park WL, Deremeik JT, Rainey C, Epstein C.
Visual disability variables. II: The difficulty of tasks for a sample of low-vision patients …

The objective of this thesis is to show how functional assessment in rehabilitation can be
improved by interval-scale measurement. As a behavioral concept, functioning must be …

Outcomes are clinical or functional changes at the wholeperson level. Measures are based
on questionnaires which summate scores assigned to a series of items representing a …

Objective: To identify and organize the elements of a taxonomy for medical rehabilitation
outcome measurement. The taxonomy can serve as a working model for further expansion …