Reduced version of the Activity Measure for Post-Acute Care (AM-PAC) for inpatients, "6-clicks": Brazilian-Portuguese cross-cultural adaptation and measurement properties.

Background: The "6-clicks" is the reduced version of the Activity Measure for Post-Acute Care for inpatients that assesses limitations in basic mobility, daily activity, and applied cognitive, simply and quickly.

Objective: Cross-culturally adapt the "6-clicks" into Brazilian-Portuguese and verify its measurement properties.

Methods: Cross-cultural adaptation followed recommendations from international guidelines.

Rasch analysis of the participation scale (P-scale): usefulness of the P-scale to a rehabilitation services network.

Background: A person's participation is acknowledged as an important outcome of the rehabilitation process. The Participation Scale (P-Scale) is an instrument that was designed to assess the participation of individuals with a health condition or disability. The scale was developed in an effort to better describe the participation of people living in middle-income and low-income countries.

Cross-cultural adaptation to Brazilian Portuguese of the Activity Measure for Post-Acute Care (AM-PAC) short forms for outpatients in rehabilitation.

Background: The Activity Measure for Post-Acute Care was developed to evaluate the limitations of activities of adult individuals with different health conditions.

Objectives: To translate and cultural adapt the Activity Measure for Post-Acute Care short forms for outpatients into Portuguese-Brazilian, to verify the comprehension of the items and categories of the responses by users of the rehabilitation services and to analyze the reliability indices of the instrument.

Methods: Translation and back-translation were conducted by two independent teams.

Characteristics and functional demands of patients at a local rehabilitation network: analysis from first contact.

The cross sectional study aims to create the patients' profile and understand their demands for seeking public rehabilitation services from Belo Horizonte. Data were analyzed from 516 patients who gained entry into the health care system by means of the Protocol for Identification of Problems for Rehabilitation (PLPR). It allows for gathering information related to one's health and the social context, including a brief functional description (BFD) with 25 items.

Development of a first-contact protocol to guide assessment of adult patients in rehabilitation services networks.

Objective: This paper describes the development of the Protocol for Identification of Problems for Rehabilitation (PLPR), a tool to standardize collection of functional information based on the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF).

Development Of The Protocol: The PLPR was developed for use during the initial contact with adult patients within a public network of rehabilitation services. Steps to develop the protocol included: survey of the ICF codes most used by clinical professionals; compilation of data from functional instruments; development and pilot testing of a preliminary version in the service settings; discussion with professionals and development of the final version.