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Andres PL , Haley SM, Ni P. Is patient-reported function reliable for monitoring post-acute outcomes? Am J Phys Med Rehabil. 2003 Aug; 82(8):614-21. A major challenge in the development of a comprehensive measurement system to evaluate effectiveness across a broad range of post-acute care settings is the stability and consistency of outcomes measures across respondents and settings. The objective of this study was to investigate the test-retest and subject-proxy reliability of activity scores for use in a new post-acute care outcome instrument using an interview format across different care settings.

Coster W, Haley S, Jette A, Tao W, Siebens H. Predictors of basic and instrumental activity of daily living performance in persons receiving rehabilitation services. Arch Phys Med.2007; 88(7):928-935. The objective of this study was to examine the relations among cognitive and emotional function and other patient impairment and demographic variables and the performance of daily activities.

Coster W, Haley S, Jette A. Measuring patient-reported outcomes after discharge from inpatient rehabilitation settings. J Rehab Med. 2006; 38:237-242. The objective of this study was to examine the sensitivity of the Short Form Activity Measure for Post-Acute Care (AM-PAC) in comparison to the Functional Independence Measure (FIM™) across a 12-month period after discharge from rehabilitation hospital.

Coster W, Haley SM, Jette A, Tao W, Siebens H. Predictors of basic and instrumental activities of daily living performance in persons receiving rehabilitation services. Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 2007; 88(7):928-35. The objective of this study was to examine the relations among cognitive and emotional function and other patient impairment and demographic variables and the performance of daily activities.

Coster WJ, Haley, SM Andres PL , Ludlow LH, Bond T. Refining the conceptual basis for rehabilitation outcome measurement: personal care and instrumental activities domain. Medical Care. 2004; 42(1 Suppl):I62-I72. Rehabilitation outcome measures routinely include content on performance of daily activities; however, the conceptual basis for item selection is rarely specified. These instruments differ significantly in format, number, and specificity of daily activity items and in the measurement dimensions and type of scale used to specify levels of performance. We propose that a requirement for upper limb and hand skills underlies many activities of daily living (ADL) and instrumental activities of daily living (IADL) items in current instruments, and that items selected based on this definition can be placed along a single functional continuum. The objective of this study was to examine the dimensional structure and content coverage of a Personal Care and Instrumental Activities item set and to examine the comparability of items from existing instruments and a set of new items as measures of this domain.

Coster, WJ, Haley, SM , Ludlow LH, Andres PL , Ni PS. Development of an Applied Cognition Scale to Measure Rehabilitation Outcomes. Arch Phys Med. 2004; 85:2030-2035. The objective of this study was to examine the structure and content coverage of an item pool of new items based on the Activity categories from the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health and items from existing instruments to measure the applied cognition dimension of function.

 

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