With the increase in the number of multinational and multicultural research projects, the need
to adapt health status measures for use in other than the source language has also grown …

Background: The purpose of this study was to develop a short, reliable, and valid measure
of physical function and symptoms related to upper-limb musculoskeletal disorders by …

The Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder and Hand (DASH) outcome measure was developed
to evaluate disability and symptoms in single or multiple disorders of the upper limb at one …

Background & Aims: Colonoscopic appearance, the primary measure of disease activity in
adult ulcerative colitis, is less acceptable to children. Our aim was to develop a noninvasive …

The minimal clinically important difference (MCID) for an instrument is a much sought after,
but elusive figure. In this review we will highlight new findings in this area, including …

Objectives: To compare the measurement properties over time of five generic health status
assessment techniques. Methods: Five health status measures were completed on two …

Measures of both generic and disease-specific health status are being developed and used
with increasing frequency for the appraisal of musculoskeletal conditions. The purpose of …

… Finally, we classify our results using the framework proposed by Beaton elsewhere in this …
size calculations, the reader should carefully apply Beaton’s guidelines and refer to the tables …

The concept of change is important to clinicians, clinical researchers, and policy makers.
Clinicians think about change with each patient encounter. In fact, as Streiner and Norman69 …

OBJECTIVE: We compared the minimal important difference (MID) with the minimal detectable
change (MDC) generated by distribution-based methods. STUDY DESIGN: Studies of two …