TY  - JOUR
A1  - Salzwedel, Annett
A1  - Nosper, Manfred
A1  - Roehrig, Bernd
A1  - Linck-Eleftheriadis, Sigrid
A1  - Strandt, Gert
A1  - Völler, Heinz
T1  - Outcome quality of in-patient cardiac rehabilitation in elderly patients - identification of relevant parameters
JF  - European journal of preventive cardiology : the official ESC journal for primary & secondary cardiovascular prevention, rehabilitation and sports cardiology
N2  - Background: Outcome quality management requires the consecutive registration of defined variables. The aim was to identify relevant parameters in order to objectively assess the in-patient rehabilitation outcome.
 Methods: From February 2009 to June 2010 1253 patients (70.9 +/- 7.0 years, 78.1% men) at 12 rehabilitation clinics were enrolled. Items concerning sociodemographic data, the impairment group (surgery, conservative/interventional treatment), cardiovascular risk factors, structural and functional parameters and subjective health were tested in respect of their measurability, sensitivity to change and their propensity to be influenced by rehabilitation.
 Results: The majority of patients (61.1%) were referred for rehabilitation after cardiac surgery, 38.9% after conservative or interventional treatment for an acute coronary syndrome. Functionally relevant comorbidities were seen in 49.2% (diabetes mellitus, stroke, peripheral artery disease, chronic obstructive lung disease). In three key areas 13 parameters were identified as being sensitive to change and subject to modification by rehabilitation: cardiovascular risk factors (blood pressure, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, triglycerides), exercise capacity (resting heart rate, maximal exercise capacity, maximal walking distance, heart failure, angina pectoris) and subjective health (IRES-24 (indicators of rehabilitation status): pain, somatic health, psychological well-being and depression as well as anxiety on the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale).
 Conclusion: The outcome of in-patient rehabilitation in elderly patients can be comprehensively assessed by the identification of appropriate key areas, that is, cardiovascular risk factors, exercise capacity and subjective health. This may well serve as a benchmark for internal and external quality management.
KW  - Cardiac rehabilitation
KW  - quality management
KW  - outcome measures
Y1  - 2014
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1177/2047487312469475
SN  - 2047-4873
SN  - 2047-4881
VL  - 21
IS  - 2
SP  - 172
EP  - 180
PB  - Sage Publ.
CY  - London
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Fyndanis, Valantis
A1  - Lind, Marianne
A1  - Varlokosta, Spyridoula
A1  - Kambanaros, Maria
A1  - Soroli, Efstathia
A1  - Ceder, Klaudia
A1  - Grohmann, Kleanthes K.
A1  - Rofes, Adrià
A1  - Simonsen, Hanne Gram
A1  - Bjekić, Jovana
A1  - Gavarró, Anna
A1  - Kraljević, Jelena Kuvač
A1  - Martínez-Ferreiro, Silvia
A1  - Munarriz, Amaia
A1  - Pourquie, Marie
A1  - Vuksanović, Jasmina
A1  - Zakariás, Lilla
A1  - Howard, David
T1  - Cross-linguistic adaptations of The Comprehensive Aphasia Test
BT  - challenges and solutions
JF  - Clinical linguistics & phonetics
N2  - Comparative research on aphasia and aphasia rehabilitation is challenged by the lack of comparable assessment tools across different languages. In English, a large array of tools is available, while in most other languages, the selection is more limited. Importantly, assessment tools are often simple translations and do not take into consideration specific linguistic and psycholinguistic parameters of the target languages. As a first step in meeting the needs for comparable assessment tools, the Comprehensive Aphasia Test is currently being adapted into a number of languages spoken in Europe. In this article, some key challenges encountered in the adaptation process and the solutions to ensure that the resulting assessment tools are linguistically and culturally equivalent, are proposed. Specifically, we focus on challenges and solutions related to the use of imageability, frequency, word length, spelling-to-sound regularity and sentence length and complexity as underlying properties in the selection of the testing material.
KW  - Aphasia
KW  - assessment
KW  - Comprehensive Aphasia Test (CAT)
KW  - cross-linguistic adaptations
KW  - outcome measures
Y1  - 2017
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/02699206.2017.1310299
SN  - 0269-9206
SN  - 1464-5076
VL  - 31
IS  - 7-9
SP  - 697
EP  - 710
PB  - Taylor & Francis Group
CY  - Philadelphia
ER  -