Background Rehabilitation medicine is facing a new development phase thanks to a recent
wave of rigorous clinical trials aimed at improving the scientific evidence of protocols. This …

Goal Attainment Scaling (GAS) is a method for quantifying progress on personal goals.
Turner-Stokes's guide to GAS is a method for quantifying progress towards personal goals …

Abstract Goal Attainment Scaling (GAS) is a method for writing personalized evaluation
scales to quantify progress toward defined rehabilitation goals. In the published literature …

The goals in the management of established rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are to control pain
and disease activity, prevent further joint damage, and enhance functioning and quality of …

Background: The management of people affected by age-related neurological disorders
requires the adoption of targeted and cost-effective interventions to cope with chronicity …

Background Physical activity has been established as being highly beneficial for health after
stroke. There are considerable global efforts to find rehabilitation programs that encourage …

Background: Assessment of patient satisfaction with orthosis is a key point for clinical
practice and research, requiring questionnaires with robust psychometric properties …

Introduction. The Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) is commonly used to assess depressive
symptoms, but its psychometric properties have never been examined in Italian people with …

OBJECTIVES:(1) To appraise, by the means of Rasch analysis, the internal validity and
reliability of the Coma Recovery Scale-Revised (CRS-R) in a sample of patients with …

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a long-term condition causing joint pain and swelling and
sometimes systemic involvement. The aims of treatment are, first, to reduce the impact the …