Quebec back pain disability scale was responsive and showed reasonable interpretability after a multidisciplinary treatment

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 63, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1249-1255

  Demoulin, Christophe ^a,b   Ostelo, Raymond ^c,d   Knottnerus, J André ^a   Smeets, Rob J E M ^a,e  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Department of Motricity Sciences   (Belgium)

^c ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^e Adelante Netherlands   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Disability questionnaire; Interpretability; Low back pain; Minimal important change; Responsiveness; Standard error of measurement

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOW BACK PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUEBEC BACK PAIN DISABILITY SCALE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; QUEBEC; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956967079     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2009.08.029     Document Type: Article

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