Sentence examples for measure of disability from inspiring English sources

This core set comprises six measures representing joint inflammation, one measure of disability, and the measurement of joint damage in trials lasting 12 months or longer (Table 2).

A good example of an objective measure of disability is that of cardiopulmonary exercise testing with measurement of VO2 max, anaerobic threshold and maximal heart rate and respiration.

There has been no attempt to obtain a continuous summary measure of disability from the checklist of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health ICFF).

The group estimate of the MIDAS score was found to be a valid estimate of a rigorous diary-based measure of disability.

Conclusion: Spine kinematics during flexion and extension of the trunk do not appear to be a valid measure of disability in patients with subacute and chronic back pain.

Outcome measures were the Frenchay Activities Index (FAI), a measure of IADLs (scores can range from 15 to 52), and the FIM™ instrument, a measure of disability (scores can range from 18 to 126).

The primary outcome was a measure of disability at 7 months that had a range from 0 to 16 with a mean of 2.8 (variance of 16.4) and a median of 1.

The purpose of this study was to compare a newly developed screening measure of disability, the WHODAS II, to three established generic effectiveness measures in terms of its sensitivity to symptom change in people with anxiety disorders.

Children and caretakers were interviewed with the Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Assessment, which generates DSM-IV diagnoses and includes a measure of disability secondary to psychological symptoms.

The Migraine Disability Assessment (MIDAS) [58] is the most widely used measure of disability in headache research and we included it to facilitate comparisons with prior research.

The KOS has been shown to be a reliable and valid measure of disability in patients with knee impairments [11, 12].