Toward standardized reporting for a cohort study on functioning: The swiss spinal cord injury cohort study

Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 189-196

  Prodinger, Birgit ^a,b,c   Ballert, Carolina S ^a,c   Brach, Mirjam ^a,c   Brinkhof, Martin W G ^a,c   Cieza, Alarcos ^a,d,e   Hug, Kerstin ^f   Jordan, Xavier ^g   Post, Marcel W M ^a,h,i   Scheel Sailer, Anke ^a,c   Schubert, Martin ^j   Tennant, Alan ^a,c   Stucki, Gerold ^b,c  

^a SWISS PARAPLEGIC RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LUCERNE   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^f Rehab Basel   (Switzerland)

^g SUVA   (Switzerland)

^h UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^j BALGRIST UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

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Author keywords

Comparability; Epidemiology; Health information systems; Informed decision making; Rasch analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CLASSIFICATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISABILITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF FUNCTIONING, DISABILITY AND HEALTH; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT-REPORTED OUTCOME; QUESTIONNAIRE; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STANDARDS; SWITZERLAND;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF FUNCTIONING, DISABILITY AND HEALTH; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT REPORTED OUTCOME MEASURES; RESEARCH DESIGN; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84959327652     PISSN: 16501977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2340/16501977-2026     Document Type: Article

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