INTRODUCTION: It has become common to use scales to measure the degree of involvement of facial paralysis in phonoaudiological clinics. OBJECTIVE: To analyze the inter- and intra-rater agreement of ...

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 ...

Background Endovascular thrombectomy (EVT) is the standard of care for large vessel occlusion stroke, yet technical failure persists in a significant minority of cases. Intracranial atherosclerotic ...

Objectives The objectives of this study were to asses (1) inter-rater and intrarater reliability of ultrasound imaging in patients with hip osteoarthritis, and (2) agreement between ultrasound and ...

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 ...

What is Crohn's disease? Crohn's disease is a long-term (chronic) inflammatory bowel disease characterized by pain (abdominal cramping), tiredness, diarrhea and weight loss. When people with Crohn's ...

Neuroradiology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Correspondence to Dr R G González, Neuroradiology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, ...

Acute ischemic stroke is a leading cause of pediatric death and disability. A clinical scale adapted for children can ensure early detection of candidates for urgent acute ischemic stroke treatment.

Objective Manifestations of SLE can be categorised as type 1 (classic signs and symptoms of SLE) or type 2 (fatigue, widespread pain and brain fog with an unclear relationship to inflammation). While ...

1 Didactics of Biology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany. 2 Z-MNU (Centre for Math & Science Education), University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany. 3 PSE (Professional School of Education), ...