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This document reviews two books and a CD-ROM about orthotics, prosthetics, and pediatric outcome measures. The books provide comprehensive information about rehabilitation techniques and equipment with some American bias. The CD-ROM is an educational program that helps users understand, evaluate, and choose appropriate pediatric outcome measures through a question-based system.

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Coek - Info - Orthotics and Prosthetics in Rehabilitation

This document reviews two books and a CD-ROM about orthotics, prosthetics, and pediatric outcome measures. The books provide comprehensive information about rehabilitation techniques and equipment with some American bias. The CD-ROM is an educational program that helps users understand, evaluate, and choose appropriate pediatric outcome measures through a question-based system.

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Book reviews 445

Orthotics and Prosthetics in The Americans must sort out their printing methods soon.
Rehabilitation The photographs detract only slightly from the content,
which is very comprehensive, with many excellent, easily
understood diagrams to emphasise and clarify salient points.
Butterworth Heinemann, Oxford Both the orthotic and the prosthetic content shows a
2000 (ISBN 0 7506 9807 1). Illus. 612 pages slightly American bias; one or two of the products shown are
rarely used in the UK, but most modern equipment and
by Michelle M Lusardi and Caroline C Nielson £75 techniques are shown and well explained.
This is a mighty tome. Weighing in at over three and a half The rehabilitation section is very extensive and generally
pounds and measuring 9 in × 11 in × 2 in, it is not a book to easy to understand, although again a small number of the
carry around in your briefcase for long journeys. This is techniques are not commonly practised in this country.
definitely one for the reference section of the library. This is a well-researched and referenced book which
The book’s American origin is instantly obvious from the should be a good source of reference for physiotherapy and
quality of the photographs. Despite the very modern prosthetic/orthotic departments.
technology being portrayed in the pictures, they appear to
have been taken on a very cheap camera in the early 1960s. R A Shepherd MCSP

CD-ROM review

All About Outcomes


An educational program to help you
understand, evaluate and choose pediatric
outcome measures This is a well-organised database with the material logically
divided into sections. After answering questions on why I
Slack, New Jersey want to measure, the workplace I want to evaluate, the level
1999 (ISBN 1 55642 395 0) of information I am after, etc, the number of available
measures gradually diminishes leaving me with just a few to
by Mary C Law PhD OT, Gillian King PhD, choose from.
Elizabeth McKinnon MCISc, Dianne Russell MSc, They then provide a detailed appraisal of each measure,
Christine Murphy MHA, Patrica Hurley BA and Eric Bosch notably including how much it costs, and where to obtain it.
$199 individuals, $299 institutions The CD-ROM format is a new and refreshingly user-friendly
This CD-ROM is designed as an educational programme to way of presenting hard-to-find details. The strength is in the
help clinicians understand, evaluate and choose outcome detail of each objective statement for the measure, making
measures for use in paediatrics. The authors aim to help them evidence-based, the challenge is how up to date it will
clinicians decide on what to measure, and how to find remain.
measures to use. I think they succeed admirably. The One small criticism I have is that the comments on each
package is intended for service managers, providers (all property, eg reliability, do not have the reference cited
members of the healthcare team) and patients and parents, alongside, so although there is a list of all the references
and is well constructed taking into account the potential used for each measure, it is unclear from which specific
questions this audience may have. Once I’d managed to load paper they obtained the information for each domain.
it, it was very easy to use with clear signposts of where to go This tool includes measures of self-esteem, coping, family
next and how to use the software. stress, functional mobility, and activities and so is for all the
The questioning style made me feel I was having a team and may well challenge physiotherapists to think
conversation with experts in the field, who steered me beyond impairments, and consider evaluating the abilities,
through the decision-making process, and even suggested participation, and perceptions of patients in a reliable
when I might need to take time out to think about the manner. Paediatric departments and educators will find it
answer. It provides definitions for words that may be unusual helps them find and use outcome measures.
to parents, lay people and clinicians. It is very well written
and clear, though to start with the number of icons on each Ralph Hammond MSc MCSP
page was a little overwhelming.

Physiotherapy August 2001/vol 87/no 8

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