Relative responsiveness of condition-specific and generic health status measures in degenerative lumbar spinal stenosis

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 1995, Pages 1369-1378

  Stucki, Gerold ^a,b   Liang, Matthew H ^b   Fossel, Anne H ^b   Katz, Jeffrey N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Physical function; Responsiveness; Roland instrument; Sickness impact profile; Spinal stenosis; Symptom severity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMAN; MALE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; SPINAL STENOSIS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0028877436     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0895-4356(95)00054-2     Document Type: Article

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