Published in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
BACKGROUND: Demonstrate feasibility and utility of the iPad version of the NIH Toolbox Cognition Battery (NIHTB-CB) in a clinical trial of older adults. METHODS: 51 adults, aged 55 and older without dementia were tested twice on NIHTB-CB and more traditional paper-and-pencil neuropsychological measures after meal ingestion, with approximately a fou...
Published in The Journal of rheumatology
To assess the reliability and validity in ankylosing spondylitis (AS) of selected Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) Short Forms (SF) developed by the US National Institutes of Health. The analysis was done across core sets and patient-identified domains of the Assessment of Spondyloarthritis international Society. Pa...
The purpose of this study was to construct and validate the instrument «Assessment scale of the constitution of professionalidentity of the bachelor in Physical Education» (EAECP). As proposed by Pasquali (2010), the process was structured in five steps:Construction of the issues; Validity of content; Reproducibility and reliability of instruments;...
The Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST) represents the gold standard for the neuropsychological assessment of executive function. However, very little is known about its reliability. In the current study, 146 neurological inpatients received the Modified WCST (M-WCST). Four basic measures (number of correct sorts, categories, perseverative errors, s...
The propensity for movement-specific reinvestment (conscious attention to and control of body movements) is associated with disrupted movement in a variety of circumstances. Movement-specific reinvestment has been shown in adults but not in children, as a validated psychometric instrument for children does not exist. The aim of this study was to ex...
Published in The Journal of rheumatology
Fatigue is a crucial determinant of quality of life across rheumatic diseases, but the lack of agreed-upon standards for identifying clinically significant fatigue hinders research and clinical management. Case definition criteria for cancer-related fatigue were proposed for inclusion in the International Classification of Diseases. The objective w...
Published in The Journal of rheumatology
To determine the extent to which instruments that measure core outcome domains in acute gout fulfill the Outcome Measures in Rheumatology (OMERACT) filter requirements of truth, discrimination, and feasibility. Patient-level data from 4 randomized controlled trials of agents designed to treat acute gout and 1 observational study of acute gout were ...
Published in The Journal of rheumatology
Measures of pain, joint swelling, joint tenderness, and patient global assessment in acute gout were endorsed at OMERACT 11. These measures should now be used in clinical trials of acute gout.
Published in The Journal of rheumatology
TASQ-IBD is a newly developed, sensible, and reliable case-finding questionnaire to be administered to patients with IBD who have ever had chronic back pain or stiffness persisting for ≥ 3 months. It should facilitate identification and timely referral of patients with IBD to rheumatologists and minimize the delay in diagnosis of axSpA. Consequentl...
