The AMC Linear Disability Score (ALDS) : measuring disability in clinical studies

Thesis

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Titlepage

Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 The impact of disease-related impairments on disability and health-related quality of life: a systematic review

Chapter 3 The AMC Linear Disability Score item bank: item response theory analysis in a mixed patient population

Chapter 4 The AMC Linear Disability Score item bank: psychometric properties of a new generic disability measure in rheumatoid arthritis

Chapter 5 Part 1 The AMC Linear Disability Score in patients with newly diagnosed Parkinson disease

Chapter 5 Part 2 Comparing the AMC Linear Disability Score item bank with the ‘gold standard’ UPDRS-ADL

Chapter 6 The AMC Linear Disability Score item bank: a new generic disability measure in stroke

Chapter 7 What should be defined as good outcome in stroke trials: a modified Rankin score of 0-1 or 0-2?

Chapter 8 The use of the AMC Linear Disability Score item bank across diseases: differential item functioning

Chapter 9 General discussion

Summary

Samenvatting

Appendix 1 A practical guideline to the ALDS item bank

Appendix 2 Methodology of the ALDS item bank

Appendix 3 The ALDS item bank: 77 items and their measurement properties

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