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Assessing Disability and Change on Individual Patients: A Report of a Patient Specific Measure

Stratford, P.·1995·Physiotherapy Canada

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The purpose of this study was to assess a patient specific measure for eliciting and recording patients' problems. While the notion was to develop a measure that would be applicable to a number of conditions or disabilities, this study assessed the measure's performance on 63 out-patients with mechanical low back pain. Patients were asked to identify up to five important activities they were having difficulty with as a result of their back pain. Patients rated difficulty on an 11-point numerical scale. At subsequent reassessments patients were informed of the activities and corresponding difficulty scores identified at the previous assessment and asked to provide a current difficulty score. Concurrent validity of the patient-specific measure was assessed using the Roland-Morris Questionnaire. Sensitivity to valid change over time was determined by comparing the measure's score to the average patient/clinician global rating of change. Moderate to excellent reliability, validity, and sensitivity to change coefficients were obtained for the patient-specific measure, suggesting it may be a useful tool in clinical practice.

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Authors
Stratford, P.
Venue
Physiotherapy Canada
Published
1995-10
Volume
47
Issue
4
Pages
258-263
ISSN
  • 0300-0508 (ISSN-L)
  • 1708-8313
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W2137471458
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928
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0.86
Type
journal article
Language
en
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