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DISABILITY AND REHABILITATION An international, multidisciplinary journal Contents of Volume 15 (1993), Numbers 1-4 EDITOR: Professor Dave Miiller Suffolk College Rope Walk, Ipswich, Suffolk IP4 ILT, UK EDITORIAL BOARD Dr E. Badley Dr Marijke W. deKleijnde Vrankrijker Professor Donald L. Patrick Director, The Arthritis Community Research & Epidemiology Branch, Ministry of Welfare, Health School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Evaluation Unit, Wellesley Hospital Research and Cultural Affairs, PO Box 3008, 2280 Rijswijk, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA Institute, 160 Wellesley Street East, Toronto, The Netherlands Dr Alan S. Rigby Ontario, M4Y 1J3, Canada Professor Shrawan Kumar Nuffield Institute for Health and the Department of Dr Naoichi Chino Departmentof Physical Therapy, Faculty of Clinical Medicine, University of Leeds, 71-75 School of Medicine, Keio University, 35 Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Alberta, 2-50 Clarendon Road, Leeds LS2 9PL, UK Shinanomachi, Shinjuku, Tokyo 160, Japan Corbett Hall, Edmonton, T6G 2G4, Canada Dr Haim Ring Professor Bryn Davis Dr Céline Lamarre Director Neurological Rehabilitation Ward and the Dean of Nursing Studies, University of Wales, Institut de Réadaptation de Montreal, 6300 Avenue Institute for Functional Evaluation, Loewenstein College of Medicine, Heath Park, Cardiff, CF4 Darlington, Montreal, H3S 2J4, Canada Hospital, Tel-Aviv University Medical School, PO 4XM, UK Professor Crt Marincek Box3 , Raanana 43100, Israel Dr Alan Doube University Rehabilitation Institute, 61001 Ljubljana, Professor Dennis Smith Waikato Hospital, Hamilton, New Zealand Linhartova 51, Slovenia, POB 381 Royal Rehabilitation Centre Sydney, 227-259 Dr Rita Goble Professor Pierre Minaire Morrison Road, PO Box 6, Ryde, NSW 2112, Principal, St Loye’s School of Occupational Ho6pitaux de St Etienne, CHRU, Ho6pital de Australia Therapy, Millbrook House, Millbrook Lane, Bellevue, Boulevard Pasteur 42023, St Etienne, Professor C. W. Wallesch Topsham Road, Exeter, EX2 6ES, UK Cedex, France Department of Neurology, Hansastrasse 9, 7800 Professor Gunnar Grimby Dr Diane Newham Freiburg, Germany Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, University Head of Physiotherapy Group, King’s College, Dr Gareth H. Williams of Géteborg, S-413 45 Géteborg, Sweden University of London, Normanby College, Senior Research Fellow, Department of Sociology, Professor Assen Jablensky Denmark Hill Campus, London, SES 9RS, UK University of Salford, Salford, MS 4WT, UK Programme Director, National Neuroscience and Ms Els Nieuwenhuijsen Professor Elizabeth J. Yerxa Behaviour Research Programme, 15 Dim, Nestorov Center for Occupational Rehabilitation and Health, University of Southern California, Route 1, 196 Street, 1431 Sofia, Bulgaria University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, Columbine, Bishop, California 93514, USA MII8104, USA DISABILITY AND REHABILITATION is covered by the following abstracting and indexing services: BLDoc, Excerpta Medica, Index Medicus, Science Citation Index. S Taylor & Fr ancis London @ Washington, DC NUMBER 1 JANUARY-MARCH 1993 REVIEW Perspectives on functional assessment: its use for policy making Carol M. Frattali RESEARCH PAPERS Coping and confidence among parents of children with diabetes C. Eiser, T. Havermans, R. Kirby, J. R. Eiser and M. Pancer Measuring functional statusof stroke patients with the Sickness Impact Profile J. Schuling, J. Greidanus and B. Meyboom-de Jong Job perspectives in facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy Cees W. J. Wevers, Oebele F. Brouwer, George W. Padberg and Irene D. Nijboer Accelerated rehabilitation after proximal femoral fracture: a randomized controlled trial Ian D. Cameron, David M. Lyle and Susan Quine REHABILITATION IN PRACTICE The assessment of disability in patients on an acute medical ward for elderly people S. P. Stone, P. Herbert, J. Chrisostomou, C. Vessey and C. Horwood Rehabilitation of elderly patients with multiple fractures secondary to falls Mark Weatherall REHABILITATION ENGINEERING A comparative study of orthoplast cock-up splints versus ready-made Droitwich work splints in juvenile chronic arthritis B.A. Eberhard, K. L. Sylvester and B. M. Ansell Albatros: an innovative low-cost wheelchair R. Vos, N. Goslett, A. van Hoogstraten and P. Fourie CLINICAL COMMENTARY Survey methods for the assessment of physical disability among children K.A. Gorter BOOK REVIEWS ANNOUNCEMENTS NUMBER 2 APRIL-JUNE 1993 REVIEW Depressive changes in stroke patients Manfred Herrmann and Claus-W. Wallesch RESEARCH PAPERS Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia: language deficits in children post-treatment Deborah L. Buttsworth, Bruce E. Murdoch and Anne E. Ozanne Reliability of the diagnosis of impairments in survey research in the field of chiropody M. J. W.M. van Gisbergen, J. Dekker and W. Zuijderduin REHABILITATION IN PRACTICE Community-based rehabilitation — a survey of disabled in a village in Botswana Birgitta Lundgren-Lindquist and Lena Nordholm Rehabilitation of the elderly patient with stroke: an analysis of short-term and long-term results Daniela Reutter-Bernays and Hans Peter Rentsch CLINICAL COMMENTARY Functional status in primary care: COOP/WONCA charts C. van Weel BOOK REVIEWS ANNOUNCEMENT NUMBER 3 JULY-SEPTEMBER 1993 RESEARCH PAPERS On the use of the WHO handicap classification in a population study of 73- and 76-year-old men and women G. Grimby, B.G. Eriksson, K. Frindin, A. Grimby, G. Gustavsson, D. Mellstrém and U. Sonn The relationship of heterotopic ossification to passive movements in paraplegic patients O. Daud, P. Sett, R.G. Burr and J. R. Silver The functional and psychological status of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: some implications for rehabilitation M. D. Hunter, I. C. Robinson and S. Neilson REHABILITATION IN PRACTICE A medical diagnostic index for rehabilitation C.D. Evans, J. Gibson, T. Jones and M. J. Williams St Loye’s Independent Living Centre: an analysis of assessments D. W.F. McGeorge, C.R. Clark and R. E.A . Goble REHABILITATION ENGINEERING Rehabilitation service evaluation: a follow-up of the extent of use of technical aids for disabled children Raija Korpela, Ritva-Liisa Seppdnen and Matti Koivikko CLINICAL COMMENTARY A policy by and for people with disability Robert J. Gregory Evaluation of the quality of medical practice in rehabilitation medicine Y. L. Boulanger and L. Pezzi FORTHCOMING PAPERS ANNOUNCEMENTS NUMBER 4 OCTOBER-DECEMBER 1993 REVIEW An introduction to the concepts and classifications of the international classification of impairments, disabilities, and handicaps Elizabeth M. Badley RESEARCH PAPERS Community-Based Rehabilitation: does it change community attitudes towards people with disability? R.A. Mitchell, D. Zhou, Y. Lu, and G. Watts REHABILITATION IN PRACTICE Ability or disability? A study of the functional outcome of 65 consecutive lower limb amputees treated at the Royal South Sydney Hospital in 1988-1989 L. Jones, M. Hall and W. Schuld CASE STUDY Patients’ fall records as an aid in designing and assessing therapy in Parkinsonism M. P. Yekutiel Keyword index Index of authors Announcements