Musculoskeletal impairment survey in Rwanda: Design of survey tool, survey methodology, and results of the pilot study (a cross sectional survey)

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders

Volumn 8, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Atijosan, Oluwarantimi ^a   Kuper, Hannah ^b   Rischewski, Dorothea ^b   Simms, Victoria ^c   Lavy, Christopher ^d  

^a JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF FUNCTIONING, DISABILITY AND HEALTH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; METHODOLOGY; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; PILOT STUDY; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PROBABILITY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RWANDA; SCREENING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDATION STUDY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INSTRUMENTATION; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PREVALENCE; QUALITY OF LIFE; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CAUSALITY; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES; PILOT PROJECTS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RWANDA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34247242268     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2474-8-30     Document Type: Article

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