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To develop and test a brief, comprehensive, and reliable instrument designed to evaluate physical impairment across multiple body systems.

May 1, 1968Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Cumulative Illness Rating Scale

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To develop and test a brief, comprehensive, and reliable instrument designed to evaluate physical impairment across multiple body systems.
Structured an assessment tool covering 13 relatively independent areas categorized under distinct body systems.
Applied a 5-point severity scale ranging from 'none' to 'extremely severe' to score impairment in each system.
Evaluated the instrument's measurement performance via standardized statistical testing of reliability and validity.
Achieved statistically significant reliability and validity metrics (P < .01).
Demonstrated that the multi-system scoring format serves as a rapid, objective, and quantifiable assessment technique for research applications.

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Validation study demonstrates high reliability and validity for a 13-item physical impairment tool, highlighting its utility as a rapid quantitative measure across body systems.

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Linn et al. (1968) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d73ba45f9a1dad5348f8f1 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1532-5415.1968.tb02103.x

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Validation study demonstrates high reliability and validity for a 13-item physical impairment tool, highlighting its utility as a rapid quantitative measure across body systems.

Cumulative Illness Rating Scale

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