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Article discusses the underlying core values critical to programs that effectively promote competitive employment through the use of supported employment for individuals with disabilities. Authors describe 10 quality indicators that can be used to assess supported employment programs: (1) meaningful competitive employment in integrated work setting; (2) informed choice, control, ...

Article briefly introducing consumers to research on spinal cord injury (SCI) now being conducted at Model SCI Care Systems and collected at the National Spinal Cord Injury Statistical Center (NSCISC). Includes contact information for Model Systems that are conducting research and may be seeking consumer participants or advisors. ...

To evaluate its effect on procedure-related distress, the focus of attention was manipulated by providing training to hospitalized acute burn patients (n=42). Participants were randomly assigned to attention focusing (i.e. attending to procedural sensations) or music distraction (i.e. attention diverting) coping interventions, or to usual care during the target dressing ...

Objective: To determine national patterns of screening, prophylaxis, and treatment of deep venous thrombosis (DVT) following traumatic brain injury (TBI) within the Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems (TBIMS). Design: e-mail survey instrument. Setting: Multicenter Regional TBIMS. Results: Fifteen of the 16 rehabilitation centers within the TBIMS responded to the survey ...

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Study identified the best-fitting descriptive models for a set of commonly adopted outcome measures found within the Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems (TBIMS) National Database. The TBIMS is a multicenter, longitudinal study of traumatic brain injury (TBI) funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research. Results indicated that ...

This study investigated the ability of the Wechsler Memory Scale-4th Edition (WMS-IV) and the Advanced Clinical Solutions (ACS) package including the new Word Choice test (WCT) to distinguish poor performance due to intentional response bias among simulators of traumatic brain injury (TBI) from poor performance due to actual TBI. Participants ...

Article describes the development and psychometric characteristics of the Spinal Cord Injury – Quality of Life (SCI-QOL) Pressure Ulcers scale, a self-reported measure of the impact of pressure ulcers on health-related quality of life in individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI). Grounded-theory based qualitative item development methods, large-scale item calibration ...