title: [Assessment instruments used in rehabilitation].
abstract: Nowadays the word assessment is commonly used in the field of health, but what aspects does it cover in rehabilitation medicine? This paper presents conceptual and operational approaches to the assessment of patients suffering from functional limitation. These systems of assessment either represent a global approach--considering patients' activities of daily living--or have been specifically elaborated for a category of patients such as those with quadriplegia. However, such instruments pose problems of validity, construct validity, sensitivity and easy use. While advanced approaches exist for improving assessment of clinical follow-up in rehabilitation, we have also to consider the difficulty of combining objective assessment of functional abilities with measurement of perceived or felt handicap from the treated patient's point of view.
authors.affiliation: Maître de Conférences Université, Paris Val de Marne, France.
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Begue-Simon
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D004185:Disability Evaluation; D006801:Humans; D007406:Interview, Psychological / Q000592:standards; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D011581:Psychological Tests / Q000592:standards; D012046:Rehabilitation / Q000379:methods* / Q000523:psychology / Q000592:standards; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires / Q000592:standards
vernacular_title: Instruments des mesure utilisés en réadaptation.