Background: Before implementation of the new scale, the Swedish modified version of the Postural Assessment Scale for Stroke Patients (SwePASS), to clinical practice, it is fundamental to analyze its measurement properties.Objective: To examine the inter-rater reliability of the SwePASS in the acute phase after stroke.
Methods: Day 3 to day 7 after admission to a stroke unit, 64 persons with stroke were assessed twice, using the SwePASS, by two physiotherapists. Inter-rater reliability was determined using percentage-agreement and the rank-invariant method: relative position, relative concentration, and relative rank variance.
Results: The raters showed a percentage agreement of ≥75% in the assessments using the SwePASS. For 9 of the 12 items, the percentage agreement was >80%. For 8 of the 12 items, there was a statistically significant change in position, revealed in relative position values between 0.08 and 0.15. Three items had statistically significant positive relative concentration values between ?0.11 and 0.10. Except for a statistically significant negligible relative variance value of 0.01 for the items 1 and 8, there was no relative variance.
Conclusions: The SwePASS shows an acceptable inter-rater reliability, albeit with potential for improvement. The reliability can be improved by a consensus how to interpret the scale between the raters prior to implementation in the clinic. 相似文献
Twenty-five women receiving sedation for outpatient hysteroscopic polypectomy were injected with 0.25% bupivacaine 10 mL (paracervical group) and another 25 received the same volume of saline (control group) at the cervical fornix. Both groups were given target-controlled propofol sedation during the procedure. More propofol (mg/min) was needed for adequate anesthesia in the control group compared to the paracervical group (6.5 versus 4.6). In addition, the postoperative pain scores were lower in the paracervical group than in the control group. Hemodynamic changes and postoperative side effects were similar in the two groups. This prospective, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study confirmed the effective use of paracervical blocks. This approach has the effect of reducing the amount of intraoperative propofol and decreasing postoperative pain in outpatient hysteroscopic surgery. 相似文献
Interest in inguinal hernia surgery has increased significantly with the introduction of new operating techniques during
the past decade. This multicenter study compared short-term results in patients treated by the laparoscopic transabdominal
preperitoneal patch technique (TAPP; n=518) and the Shouldice technique (n=524). We evaluated demographics, operative data, complications, hospital stay, postoperative pain, use of analgesics, functional
status, sick leave, and complaints up to 3 months postoperatively. The median operating time was shorter in the Shouldice
group (55 vs. 65 min), but there were no significant differences in complication rates, and major complications were rare.
The hospital stay was 1 day or less in over 98% of cases in both groups, but more operations were performed on outpatient
basis in the Shouldice group. In the TAPP group postoperative pain and analgesic consumption were less, postoperative functional
status was better, and sick leave was shorter (10 vs. 14 days). These results show that the two methods are equally safe and
have few major complications. The TAPP operation is associated with less postoperative pain, better postoperative functional
status, and shorter sick leave, but at the price of a longer operating time.
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Inguinal hernia is a known complication after radical retropubic prostatectomy (RRP). We have investigated whether other types
of lower midline incision surgery in males increase the risk of inguinal hernia. Male patients operated with open prostatectomy
for benign prostate hyperplasia (n = 95), pelvic lymph node dissection for staging of prostate cancer (n = 88), or cystectomy for bladder cancer (n = 76) were identified and were sent questionnaires in which they were asked about postoperative inguinal hernia morbidity.
Two-hundred and seventy-one men operated with RRP had previously received a similar questionnaire. The answers were compared
with those from a control group of 953 men who had not undergone surgery. Annual attributional hernia morbidity and Kaplan–Meier
hernia-free survival were calculated. The cumulative incidence of post-operative inguinal hernia and annual attributional
hernia morbidity after the respective surgical procedures were clearly higher during the early years post-operation than for
nonoperated patients. Inguinal hernia is a common postoperative complication in males after all the lower midline incision
surgery investigated. 相似文献
Abstract: The use of neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) for rehabilitation of gait in spinal patients is widely known. The best results can be obtained with the use of biomechanical sensors and a closed loop NMES system. One of the biggest problems faced in the design of control systems for closed-loop operation, in gait rehabilitation, is the variation of the mechanical conditions during the phases of gait. This work presents a new approach to ease the design of rule-based closed loop systems for operation in conditions such as gait rehabilitation. 相似文献