Traditional assessment of health outcome following total knee arthroplasty was confounded by response shift phenomenon

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 91-96

  Razmjou, Helen ^a   Schwartz, Carolyn E ^a   Yee, Albert ^a   Finkelstein, Joel A ^a  

^a SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Minimal clinical important difference; Response shift; Then test; Total knee arthroplasty; Total knee replacement surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARAMETRIC TEST; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT FORM 36; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ONTARIO; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 57449104161     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2008.08.004     Document Type: Article

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