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Appendix D: Kurtze's Expanded Disability Status Scale
Pages 385-386

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... Able to walk without aid or rest some 500 meters 4.5 Fully ambulatory without aid, up and about much of the day, able to work a full day, may otherwise have some limitation of full activity or require minimal assistance, characterized by relatively severe disability. Able to walk without aid or rest for some 300 meters Ambulatory without aid or rest for about 200 meters; disability severe enough to preclude full daily activities (e.g.
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... Can communicate and eat Totally helpless bed patient. Unable to communicate effectively or eat/ swallow 10 Death due to Multiple Sclerosis SOURCE: Kurtzke IF.
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Key Terms

  • wheels self
  • bed patient
  • relatively severe
  • daily activities
  • status scale

  • disability status
  • severe disability
  • disability severe
  • standard wheelchair
  • helpless bed

  • require minimal
  • minimal assistance
  • essentially restricted
  • totally helpless
  • motorized wheelchair

  • special provisions
  • walk beyond
  • communicate effectively
  • death due
  • multiple sclerosis


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