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 …

Clinicians and researchers without a suitable health-related quality of life (HRQOL) measure
in their own language have two choices:(1) to develop a new measure, or (2) to modify a …

Objectives The aim of cross-cultural adaptation (CCA) of a questionnaire is to achieve
equivalence between the original and adapted questionnaire. Here, we aimed to review the …

Background Measuring disease and injury burden in populations requires a composite
metric that captures both premature mortality and the prevalence and severity of ill-health …

Background Non-fatal health outcomes from diseases and injuries are a crucial
consideration in the promotion and monitoring of individual and population health. The …

Objective To estimate the global burden of hip and knee osteoarthritis (OA) as part of the
Global Burden of Disease 2010 study and to explore how the burden of hip and knee OA …

With the increase in the number of multi-national and multi-cultural research projects, the
need to adapt health status measures for use in other than the source language has also …

Background Intravenous thrombolysis with alteplase alone cannot reperfuse most large-
artery strokes. We aimed to determine whether mechanical thrombectomy in addition to …

In an increasing effort to use standard health status measures internationally, clinicians and
medical researchers have to face the unknown validity of composite measurement tools …

Objective To develop new antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) classification criteria with high
specificity for use in observational studies and trials, jointly supported by the American …