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  • Title: Critical review of disability measures: conceptual developments.
    Author: Kidd T, Yoshida K.
    Journal: Physiother Can; 1995; 47(2):108-19. PubMed ID: 10142882.
    Abstract:
    The development of outcome measures of disability is an important focus in physical therapy research. This paper reviews the content of functional status/disability measures developed between 1950 to 1989 to ascertain trends in disability measurement. Content analysis reveals that measures have followed three predominant patterns: a self care to a functional focus, a physical to a psychosocial focus, and a clinician to a client focus. These patterns related issues are discussed. The development of physical therapy measures requires the consideration of various perspectives, including the consumer perspective. Physical therapy measures must reflect a perspective which integrates physical capacity, physical function and environmental concerns.
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