Objectives Evaluation of the inter-rater reliability of clinical assessment methods for pelvic floor muscles and diastasis recti abdominis post partum. Design A multicentre inter-rater reliability ...

Objectives Lower limb isometric tests are used to assess strength and strength asymmetries and monitor reductions in muscle force that may contribute to loss of performance and increase injury risk.

This document provides preliminary estimates for 2013 on hospital-acquired conditions (HACs), indicating a 17 percent decline, from 145 to 121 HACs per 1,000 discharges, from 2010 to 2013. A ...

BACKGROUND: The Pediatric Balance Scale (PBS) was developed from a modified version of the Berg Balance Scale aiming to obtain a balance scale more appropriate for the child population. OBJECTIVES: To ...

What problems does this solve? Qualitative coding is a process often used in qualitative research, especially with the grounded theory methodology. Basically, it involves a researcher (the coder or ...

CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE: Sedation scales are used to guide sedation protocols in intensive care units (ICUs). However, no sedation scale in Portuguese has ever been evaluated. The aim of this study was ...

quallmer.app provides an interactive Shiny application for working with qualitative data coded using the quallmer package. The app supports: The sample dataset contains 20 movie reviews coded by three ...

Data sources An electronic database search was conducted (to 6 August 2012) of databases such as: MEDLINE, CINAHL, EMBASE, PubMed and Cochrane Databases. References from identified articles were ...

1 McMaster Evidence-based Practice Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada 2 Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada 3 ...

1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA, USA. 2 Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA. 3. Gwet’s Kappa: An Improved Model of Chance Agreement 1) ...