Does parallel item content on WOMAC's pain and function subscales limit its ability to detect change in functional status?

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders

Volumn 5, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Stratford, Paul W ^a   Kennedy, Deborah M ^a,b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Inst S/Women's Coll Hlth Sci C   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTION TEST; HEALTH STATUS; HIP ARTHROPLASTY; HUMAN; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; RATING SCALE; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THEORETICAL STUDY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, HIP; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOARTHRITIS, HIP; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 13444306493     PISSN: 14712474     EISSN: 14712474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2474-5-17     Document Type: Article

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