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... the effectiveness of rehabilitation services. How should fundamental concepts such as recovery, functional status, and disability be defined? Because brain function is ...

... progression or therapy (e.g., decline in performance status). Panel B of the figure represents the concept of transitions. The disease trajectory is divided into ...

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... care team understand a patient’s current clinical status or expected trajectory. To this end, the use of human patient simulators has previously been employed to assess a team’s situation awareness. The concept refers to a person’s understanding of a ...

... of relevance to the patient's overall health status. 41 Floor and Ceiling Effects Poor content validity can also lead to a mismatch between the distribution of responses and the true distribution of the concept of interest in the population. For example, if ...

... number of seizures, social limitations, social support, self concept, ... measure health status. Each dimension has three levels of response based ...

... for use as a generic indicator of health status in clinical use, research, population surveys, and evaluative studies of health policy. 56 It incorporates physical, social, and mental concepts of both positive and negative aspects health. A ...

... than 3 “primary” outcomes as inconsistent with the concept of primary outcome). ... status, mortality) or established intermediate outcome (e.g., blood ...