Can the ICF be used as a rehabilitation outcome measure?
The inter-rater and intra-rater reliability and agreement of the ICF activities of daily living categories were comparable or better than the corresponding FIM items. The results of this study provide an indication that the ICF categories could be used as components of rehabilitation outcome measures.
Despite the fact that uremic patients on hemodialysis show low serum levels of LT3, changes in LT3 influx and efflux could act as a compensatory mechanism that neutralize thyroid hormone dysfunction in order to maintain the euthyroid state.