Rehabilitation intervention for patients with upper extremity dysfunction: challenges of outcome evaluation.

摘要: Upper extremity (UE) dysfunction attributed to overuse is an increasingly prevalent problem managed with interdisciplinary rehabilitation. Outcome evaluation of these programs limited by a number factors. First, patients UE include wide variety pathophysiologic processes and diagnoses that are associated multiple secondary impairments, disabilities, handicaps limit personal performance. Second, the particular experience disablement expectations each person brings rehabilitation process necessitates individualized program unique goals. Successful outcome measurement must take into account achievement individual goals as well objective scalar quantification comparable between groups. Understanding relationships impairments given functional outcomes will come from controlled, dosed treatment studies in “pure” diagnostic patient Outcomes research applied it currently practiced should individually devised assessments accomplishment satisfaction addition long-term quantitative reassessment under all domains work (This article US Government and, such, public domain United States America.) © 1996 Wiley-Liss. Inc.