WASHINGTON – Assessments of a person’s ability to function at work provide important information for disability determinations, and many validated tests are available to assess work-related physical ...

The U.S. Social Security Administration has requested that the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine conduct a study to (1) provide an overview of ways to collect information about ...

Screening for functional deficits in older adults Assessment of functional impairments in an aging population is one of the most daunting challenges facing primary-care clinicians. HOW TO TAKE THE ...

RESULTS: Internal consistency and test-retest reliability of the FACT-O were adequate. Overall, the scales correlated with other measures as expected; all correlations were in the hypothesized ...

questionnaire In patients with schizophrenia researchers found that the Beijing Performance-based Functional Ecological Test is valid in assessment of functional capacity. Researchers have developed a ...

Patients with MDD exhibit significantly higher triglyceride levels, which correlate with worse functional impairment scores.

Objective Assess the validity of an app-based assessment of the functional impact of concussion symptoms compared to traditional scales. Design Prospective cohort study. Setting Multi-disciplinary ...