Reliability and Validity of the German Version of "The Patient-rated Wrist Evaluation (PRWE)" as an Outcome Measure of Wrist Pain and Disability in Patients with Acute Distal Radius Fractures

Journal of Hand Therapy

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 366-376

  Hemelaers, Liesbeth ^a   Angst, Felix ^b   Drerup, Susann ^b   Simmen, Beat R ^b   Wood Dauphinee, Sharon ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b SCHULTHESS CLINIC   (Switzerland)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DISABILITY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; LIMB PAIN; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PLASTER CAST; PLATE FIXATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIUS FRACTURE; RELIABILITY; SHORT FORM 36; WRIST PAIN;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PSYCHOMETRICS; RADIUS FRACTURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WRIST; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 55649110672     PISSN: 08941130     EISSN: 1545004X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.jht.2008.03.002     Document Type: Article

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