… Some functionally disabled patients may value a high level of functioning enough to undergo
risky treatmens that may improve their activity level. Other functionally disabled patients are …

… The level of evidence represented by the identified studies is low. Nearly all the studies
employed a simple before-after study design, without adequate control group or control site. This …

… Mittman BS, Zubkoff L, Simon B, Rubenstein LV. Use of social science theory in research
on healthcare provider behavior. Abstr Book VA Health Serv Res Dev 1998;16:100. …

… We used multiple imputation for missing data at the item level. We imputed 5 data sets,
averaged predictions, and adjusted SEs for uncertainty due to imputation. Because we report …

… or can be changed only with substantial effort (depression level, social support). These
external variables (eg, race, depression level, treatment experience, social support) are distal …

… Although our meta-regression models adjusted for study-level differences, we cannot …
allocated interventions at the provider or community level. We conducted a sensitivity analysis that …

A comprehensive functional assessment requires thorough and careful inquiry, which is
difficult to accomplish in most busy clinical practices. This paper examines the reliability and …

… whether some types of patients visiting primary care physicians are less likely to be identified
by their physicians as having a mental health problem than others, given the same level of …

BACKGROUND Compared to those with depression alone, depressed patients with
posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) experience more severe psychiatric symptomatology and …

purpose: To assess the value of functional status questions in predicting mortality, we
conducted a 4-year prospective longitudinal follow-up study of functionally impaired community-…