Kim, Jong-Keun Lee, Do Weon Ro, Du Hyun Han, Hyuk-Soo Lee, Myung Chul
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Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA
Compartmental load-sensing technology has been used in the attempt to achieve optimal soft tissue balance during total knee arthroplasty (TKA). This study was conducted to investigate the validity of such use of intraoperative sensing technology. Ninety-three knees scheduled to undergo total knee arthroplasty for knee osteoarthritis with a tibial s...
Pavese, Chiara Giordano, Andrea Dalla Toffola, Elena Nardone, Antonio Franchignoni, Franco
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Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation
To investigate the psychometric properties of the validated Italian version of the Facial Disability Index (FDI), a patient-reported outcome measure widely used to assess individuals with peripheral facial palsy. Methodological research on cross-sectional data from a convenience sample. Outpatient university rehabilitation clinic. A total of 168 (N...
Suwannaphisit, Sitthiphong Tangtrakulwanich, Boonsin Suwanno, Porames Sinnathakorn, Nitiphoom Maheu, Emmanuel
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BMC musculoskeletal disorders
The Functional Index for Hand Osteoarthritis (FIHOA) is a simple tool to assess functional impairment for hand OA patients. The purpose of this study was to translate the FIHOA into the Thai language, and validate it in Thai hand OA patients. The FIHOA was translated into Thai (T-FIHOA) according to the principles of cross-cultural adaptation and a...
Burvill, Angela J Murray, Kevin Knuiman, Matthew W Hung, Joseph
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Clinical hypertension
Population health behaviour and risk factor surveys most often rely on self-report but there is a lack of studies assessing the validity of self-report using Australian data. This study investigates the sensitivity, specificity and agreement of self-reported hypertension and hypercholesterolaemia with objective measures at standard and more stringe...
Gomollón, Fernando Seoane-Mato, Daniel Montoro, Miguel A Juanola, Xavier Trujillo-Martin, Elisa Carrillo-Palau, Marta Matallana, Virginia García-Magallón, Blanca Ber, Yolanda Ramos, Laura
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Digestive and liver disease : official journal of the Italian Society of Gastroenterology and the Italian Association for the Study of the Liver
Spondyloarthritis (SpA) is one of the most common extraintestinal manifestations of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Diagnostic delay must be avoided. We assessed the validity of SpA screening criteria (any of the following characteristics: chronic low back pain with onset before 45 years of age; inflammatory lower back pain or alternating buttock...
Wolfisberg, Selina Gregoriano, Claudia Struja, Tristan Kutz, Alexander Koch, Daniel Bernasconi, Luca Hammerer-Lercher, Angelika Mohr, Christine Haubitz, Sebastian Conen, Anna
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Infection
To externally validate four previously developed severity scores (i.e., CALL, CHOSEN, HA2T2 and ANDC) in patients with COVID-19 hospitalised in a tertiary care centre in Switzerland. This observational analysis included adult patients with a real-time reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction or rapid-antigen test confirmed severe acute respi...
de Oliveira, Camilla Aparecida Silva Firmino, Ramon Targino de Morais Ferreira, Fernanda Vargas, Andréa Maria Duarte Ferreira E Ferreira, Efigênia
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Child indicators research
Create and evaluate the psychometric properties of the Quality of Life in the Neighborhood Questionnaire for Children 8 to 10 years of Age (QoL-N-Kids 8-10). The present study was conducted in a medium-sized city in southeastern Brazil with children at four public schools and one private school. The study involved three phases: a) generation and va...
Pereira, Glaucia Miranda Varella Juliato, Cassia Raquel Teatin Gomes, Daniela Angerame Yela de Souza Beltramini, Tais de Castro Monteiro, Marilene Vale Brito, Luiz Gustavo Oliveira
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International Urogynecology Journal
Introduction and hypothesis Vaginal laxity (VL) can impair women´s quality of life and there are not many tools aimed at quantitatively addressing this complaint. Sexual distress can be present within this group of patients. The aim of our study is to carry out the cross-cultural adaptation/translation and validation of the Female Sexual Distress S...
de Arruda, Guilherme Tavares de Andrade, Dalton Francisco Virtuoso, Janeisa Franck
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Journal of patient-reported outcomes
There are limitations regarding the meaning of the total score of the Pelvic Floor Distress Inventory (PFDI-20) in clinical practice and scientific research. Thus, the aims of this study were to evaluate the internal structure (structural validity and internal consistency) and propose a classification for the distress caused by the presence of pelv...
Dardenne, Nadia Locquet, Médéa Diep, Anh Nguyet Gilbert, Allison Delrez, Sophie Beaudart, Charlotte Brabant, Christian Ghuysen, Alexandre Donneau, Anne-Françoise Bruyère, Olivier
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BMC Infectious Diseases
Background Since the beginning of the pandemic, hospitals have been constantly overcrowded, with several observed waves of infected cases and hospitalisations. To avoid as much as possible this situation, efficient tools to facilitate the diagnosis of COVID-19 are needed. Objective To evaluate and compare prediction models to diagnose COVID-19 iden...
