The use of an item response theory-based disability item bank across diseases: accounting for differential item functioning

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 543-549

  Weisscher, Nadine ^a   Glas, Cees A ^b   Vermeulen, Marinus ^a   De Haan, Rob J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

ALDS; Clinimetrics; DIF; Disability; Outcome assessment; Psychometrics

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER LINEAR DISABILITY SCALE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL ITEM FUNCTIONING; DISABILITY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OUTPATIENT; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PAIN; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 77949773570     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2009.07.016     Document Type: Article

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