Response A methodologic framework for health status measures: Clarity or oversimplification?

Quality of Life in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of English and Canadian Children

“…Measurements of HRQOL are increasingly used to evaluate therapeutic interventions and to assist with resource allocation. There has been much discussion about how HRQOL should be measured, what makes a valid measure, and who should measure it (2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9). Because QOL is subjective, instruments to measure QOL should be based on the issues of greatest importance to the study population.…”

Development of the Gross Motor Function Classification System for cerebral palsy

“…1 These measures may be used to describe, classify, and to predict future function, or to evaluate change in status over time and in response to life events (including therapies). 2 Measures traditionally used in childhood disability research have often been applied inappropriately 3 making it difficult to assess whether the findings of a 'negative' study were related to issues of research design, effectiveness of interventions, or inadequacies of the tools themselves.…”

Gait velocity, timed-up-and-go, and timed stair negotiation measurements using body-contact events are accurate and precise for use in patients following vascular surgery

“…A tool might also need to have proven agreement when it is used to remeasure a subject/object if one uses it to evaluate a meaningful change -often the case in clinical measurement. We considered that reporting both aspects of precision was imperative in line with the considerable debate of how reliability is reported in the literature [17,[24][25][26][27][28][29].…”