tailieunhanh - Báo cáo y học: "A functional difficulty and functional pain instrument for hip and knee osteoarthritis"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học General Psychiatry cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: A functional difficulty and functional pain instrument for hip and knee osteoarthritis. | Available online http content 11 4 R107 Research article A functional difficulty and functional pain instrument for hip and knee osteoarthritis Alan M Jette1 Christine M McDonough1 2 Pengsheng Ni1 Stephen M Haley1 Ronald K Hambleton3 Sippy Olarsch1 David J Hunter4 Young-jo Kim5 6 and David T Felson7 1 Health Disability Research Institute Boston University School of Public Health Boston University 715 Albany Street - T5W Boston MA 02118 USA _ 2The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice Dartmouth College 35 Centerra Parkway Lebanon NH 03766 USA 3Center for Educational Assessment Department of Educational Policy Research and Administration School of Education University of Massachusetts 813 North Pleasant Street Amherst MA 01003 USa 4Division of Research New England Baptist Hospital 1 25 Parker Hill Avenue Boston MA 02120 USA 5Harvard Medical School Harvard University 25 Shattuck Street Boston MA 02115 USA 6The Department of Orthopedic Surgery Children s Hospital 300 Longwood Avenue Boston MA 02115 USA 7Boston University School of Medicine Boston University 715 Albany Street R-304 Boston MA 02118-2526 USA Corresponding author Alan M Jette ajette@ Received 10 Mar 2009 Revisions requested 7 May 2009 Revisions received 20 May 2009 Accepted 9 Jul 2009 Published 9 Jul 2009 Arthritis Research Therapy 2009 11 R107 doi 86 ar2760 This article is online at http content 11 4 R107 2009 Jette et al. licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Open Access Abstract Introduction The objectives of this study were to develop a functional outcome instrument for hip and knee osteoarthritis research OA-FUNCTION-CAT using item response theory IRT and computer .