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The TESS scale incorporated a self-rating scale of disability, which was collapsed into a dichotomous variable: not disabled (not at all disabled and mildly disabled) and disabled (moderately and completely/severely disabled).
And many doubt that the quadrupling of spending on disability in the last 20 years reflects a quadrupling in the scale of disability.
The measures of the 43 categories for body function/structure components, the Functioning Scale of Disability Evaluation System for activities/participation components, and the needs assessment have been developed and used in the field after several revisions.
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The primary outcome measure is the number of adverse events, and secondary outcome measures will include change in clinical rating scales of disability, GEP and cranial MRI.
Secondary outcome was good neurological function at hospital discharge, defined as a CPC 1 or 2. The CPC is a validated five-point scale of neurological disability and historically the most commonly used outcome measure in post-cardiac arrest research (1: good cerebral performance, 2: moderate cerebral disability, 3: severe cerebral disability, 4: coma/vegetative state, 5: death) [14, 17 19].
Secondary outcome was good neurological function at hospital discharge, defined as a CPC 1 or 2. The CPC is a validated five-point scale of neurological disability and historically the most commonly used outcome measure in post-cardiac arrest research (1: good cerebral performance, 2: moderate cerebral disability, 3: severe cerebral disability, 4: coma/vegetative state, 5: death) [ 14, 17- 19].
However, due to practical reasons and the lengthy time required to administer the trial version, the d/e focus groups later decided to adopt the 36-item version of the WHO Disability Assessment Schedule 2.0 (WHODAS 2.0) [ 12] instead of the trial version [ 10, 11] in the performance dimension of the Functioning Scale of the Disability Evaluation System-Adult Version (FUNDES-adult version).
The modified Rankin scale (a scale for measurement of disability) [ 21] was used as the primary outcome measure, and iNPHGS, TUG and MMSE as secondary outcome measures.
Main outcome measure Transition from no disability (defined as a score of 0 or 1 on the instrumental activities of daily living scale) to disability (score ≥2) or death over three year follow-up.
It provides a single main score, the DASH function/symptom score, which is a summation of the responses on a scale of 0 (no disability) to 100 (severe disability).
The categories of the Disability Scale differentiate levels of disability that appear clinically important to patients and clinicians, each category being easy to interpret and having intuitive face validity.
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