Enhanced clarity and holism: The outcome of implementing the ICF with an acute stroke multidisciplinary team in England

This article is made available through the Brunel Open Access Publishing Fund.Purpose: Although it is recommended that the ICF (International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health) should be implemented to aid communication within multidisciplinary stroke services, there is no empirical evidence to demonstrate the outcomes of such implementation. Working with one stroke service, this project aimed to address this gap and sought to evaluate the outcomes of implementing an ICF-based clinical tool into practice. Method: Using an action research framework with mixed methods, data were collected from individual interviews, a focus group, questionnaires, email communications, minutes from relevant meetings and field notes. Thematic analysis was undertaken, using immersion and crystallisation, to define overall themes. Descriptive statistics were used to analyse quantitative data. Data from both sources were combined to create key findings. Results: Three findings were determined from the data analysis. The ICF (1) fosters communication within and beyond the multidisciplinary stroke team; (2) promotes holistic thinking; and (3) helps to clarify team roles. Conclusions: The ICF enhanced clarity of communication and team roles within the acute stroke multidisciplinary team as well as with other clinicians, patients and their relatives. In addition, the ICF challenged stroke clinicians to think holistically, thereby appropriately extending their domain of concern beyond their traditional remit. Implications for Rehabilitation: (1) The ICF is a globally accepted framework to describe functioning and is in use in a variety of clinical settings. Yet, the outcomes of using it in clinical practice have yet to be fully explored. (2) This study found that the ICF enhanced clarity of communication and team roles within an acute stroke multidisciplinary team and to others beyond the team, including clinicians, patients and their relatives. (3) Using the ICF also challenged clinicians to think holistically about patient needs following a stroke.The Elizabeth Casson Trus

Optical spectroscopy of radioactive atoms

An epitome of optical methods used in atomic spectroscopy of radioactive atoms is presented. The overview addresses a number of results in atomic structure and hyperfine structure, and the implications in the study of electric and magnetic properties of nuclei. An aperçu is given of the concomitant development of the experimental methods, from simple optical techniques to laser spectroscopy, and from use of "off-line” experiments to ones using ISOLDE-type facilitie

LENSLESS FOURIER‐TRANSFORM METHOD FOR OPTICAL HOLOGRAPHY

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/70809/2/APPLAB-6-10-201-1.pd

Spectroscopic implications of new holographic imaging methods

Significant increases in luminosity, detection and resolution capabilities may result from extending to spectroscopic and astronomical instruments some of the new advances, recently made in the field of wavefront-reconstruction imaging (holography), first described by D. Gabor in 19481) 2) 3) 4).The recent advances 4-11) of which we have briefly described some early aspects elsewhere have already permitted us to obtain spectra in a holographic Fourier- transforming 7) 8) arrangement, using no scanning in the interferometer, and displaying the spectra by optical Fourier-transform reconstruction from the interferometric hologram 9), rather than by digital computation. In another work, we have now been able to holographically compensate a posteriori for the "slit spreading-effect", in a coherent-light imaging system, and to retrieve the resolution by a corrtion-reconstruction method 10) 11). "Erasing" of selected image portions, by actually adding the complex amplitudes in two images, 180[deg] out of phase, in a holographic arrangement has also been achieved 12) and may be used for increasing detection of selected image portions in astronomical and spectroscopic plates. Previously unpublished advances and some details of the new holographic imaging methods are given.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/33391/1/0000790.pd

Interferometric reconstruction of phase objects using diffuse `coding' and two holograms

In contrast with previously described multiply-exposed single holograms, used for interferometry according to a principle first described by Gabor, Stroke, Restrick, Funkhouser and Brumm, interferometric image `coding' and `decoding' may be accomplished in diffuse light with two separately recorded holograms.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/33484/1/0000889.pd

Stroke patients admitted within normal working hours are more likely to achieve process standards and to have better outcomes

Acknowledgements The authors are grateful to David Murphy of the SSCA for providing data and to Lynsey Waugh of ISD Scotland for linking the SSCA data with General Register Office data. The authors also acknowledge the help of all who enter data into SSCA. Funding This study was funded by Chest, Heart and Stroke Scotland (Grant no R14/A156). The SSCA is funded by NHS Scotland via ISD.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Hyperfine Structure

Contains reports on four research projects

WHITE‐LIGHT RECONSTRUCTION OF COLOR IMAGES FROM BLACK‐AND‐WHITE VOLUME HOLOGRAMS RECORDED ON SHEET FILM

The method of ``white‐light reflection holography'' first described by Stroke and Labeyrie (Physics Letters 20, 368, March 1, 1966) and subsequently verified by a number of authors, has now been extended to the recording of volume holograms in 6–7‐μ‐thick Kodak 649F emulsions on sheet film, with a quality in the reconstructed images comparing favorably with the images reconstructed from the 17‐μ‐thick emulsions on glass plates used heretofore. The results presented have also permitted us to further verify a simple ``crystallographic'' theory of the method, first used by Stroke and Labeyrie (ibid.) and further described by G. W. Stroke in a subsequent paper.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/70381/2/APPLAB-9-5-215-1.pd

Atomic Beams

Contains a report on a research project.Lincoln Laboratory (Purchase Order DDL-B222)United States Department of the ArmyUnited States Department of the NavyUnited States Department of the Air Force (Contract AF19(122)-458

TWO‐BEAM INTERFEROMETRY BY SUCCESSIVE RECORDING OF INTENSITIES IN A SINGLE HOLOGRAM

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/69844/2/APPLAB-8-2-42-1.pd