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Evaluation of WOMAC 20, 50, 70 response criteria in patients treated with hylan G-F 20 for knee osteoarthritisN Bellamy
CONROD, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Queensland, Level 3, Mayne Medical School, Herston Road, Brisbane, Queensland 4006, Australia
Ann Rheum Dis 64:881-5. 2005..A secondary analysis of a previously conducted one year randomised controlled trial to evaluate the capacity of responder criteria based on the WOMAC index to detect between treatment group differences...- Dimensionality and clinical importance of pain and disability in hand osteoarthritis: Development of the Australian/Canadian (AUSCAN) Osteoarthritis Hand IndexN Bellamy
The Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Queensland, Herston, Australia
Osteoarthritis Cartilage 10:855-62. 2002..To develop a reliable, valid, and responsive self-administered questionnaire to probe pain, stiffness and physical disability in patients with osteoarthritis (OA) of the hand... - Rhythmic variations in pain, stiffness, and manual dexterity in hand osteoarthritisN Bellamy
Centre of National Research on Disability and Rehabilitation Medicine CONROD, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Ann Rheum Dis 61:1075-80. 2002..To explore circadian variation in pain, stiffness, and manual dexterity in patients with hand osteoarthritis (OA)... - Science of assessmentN Bellamy
CONROD, University of Queenland, Mayne Medical School, Herston Road, Brisbane, Queensland 4006, Australia
Ann Rheum Dis 64:ii42-5. 2005.... - Clinimetric properties of the AUSCAN Osteoarthritis Hand Index: an evaluation of reliability, validity and responsivenessN Bellamy
The Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Queensland, Herston, Australia
Osteoarthritis Cartilage 10:863-9. 2002..To assess the reliability, validity and responsiveness of the Australian/Canadian (AUSCAN) Osteoarthritis Hand Index in both Likert (LK) and Visual Analogue (VA)-scaled formats... - The effectiveness of hylan G-F 20 in patients with knee osteoarthritis: an application of two sets of response criteria developed by the OARSI and one set developed by OMERACT-OARSINicholas Bellamy
CONROD, Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Osteoarthritis Cartilage 13:104-10. 2005.... - Towards a definition of "difference" in osteoarthritisN Bellamy
Department of Medicine, University of Queensland, Australia
J Rheumatol 28:427-30. 2001..In particular, the patient's perspective of the importance of change at an individual level requires further evaluation. This area of clinical research is relatively underdeveloped, but there is considerable opportunity for progress... - Perceptual variation in categorizing individuals according to American College of Rheumatology classification criteria for hand, knee, and hip osteoarthritis (OA): observations based on an Australian Twin Registry study of OAN Bellamy
Department of Medicine, The University of Western Ontario, London, Canada
J Rheumatol 26:2654-8. 1999..We investigated the interrater reliability of the ACR classification criteria for OA when applied in a community based sample... - Effectiveness and safety of repeat courses of hylan G-F 20 in patients with knee osteoarthritisJ P Raynauld
Department of Medicine, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Osteoarthritis Cartilage 13:111-9. 2005..Osteoarthritis Cartilage 2002;10:506-17]. The hypotheses tested were whether the single-course and repeat-course subgroups would be superior to appropriate care and not different from each other... - A prospective, randomized, pragmatic, health outcomes trial evaluating the incorporation of hylan G-F 20 into the treatment paradigm for patients with knee osteoarthritis (Part 1 of 2): clinical resultsJ P Raynauld
Department of Medicine, University of Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Osteoarthritis Cartilage 10:506-17. 2002..Second, to utilize the measures of effectiveness and costs in an economic evaluation (see accompanying manuscript)... - Responsiveness of the short form-36, disability of the arm, shoulder, and hand questionnaire, patient-rated wrist evaluation, and physical impairment measurements in evaluating recovery after a distal radius fractureJ C MacDermid
Hand and Upper Limb Centre, St Joseph s Health Centre, London, Ontario, Canada
J Hand Surg Am 25:330-40. 2000..Of the physical tests, grip strength was most responsive, followed by range of motion. Responsive patient-rating scales and physical performance evaluations can assist with outcome evaluation of patients with distal radius fracture... - The WOMAC Knee and Hip Osteoarthritis Indices: development, validation, globalization and influence on the development of the AUSCAN Hand Osteoarthritis IndicesN Bellamy
Centre of National Research on Disability and Rehabilitation Medicine (CONROD, Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Mayne Medical School, Level 3, Herston Road, Brisbane, Queensland 4006, Australia
Clin Exp Rheumatol 23:S148-53. 2005..WOMAC data have also contributed to the development of proposed definitions for responder criteria and state-attainment criteria in osteoarthritis... - Differences between systematic reviews/meta-analyses of hyaluronic acid/hyaluronan/hylan in osteoarthritis of the kneeJ Campbell
Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
Osteoarthritis Cartilage 15:1424-36. 2007..To explore reasons for discrepant results between systematic reviews (SR)/meta-analyses (MA) of the efficacy and safety of hyaluronic acid/hyaluronan/hylan (HA) therapy in the treatment of osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee... - A randomized, controlled trial of methotrexate versus placebo in early diffuse sclerodermaJ E Pope
University of Western Ontario, London, Canada
Arthritis Rheum 44:1351-8. 2001..Our findings do not provide evidence that MTX is significantly effective in the treatment of early diffuse SSc... - Electronic data capture (EDC) using cellular technology: implications for clinical trials and practice, and preliminary experience with the m-Womac Index in hip and knee OA patientsN Bellamy
Centre of National Research on Disability and Rehabilitation Medicine CONROD, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4006, Australia
Inflammopharmacology 17:93-9. 2009..The capture, analysis and utilisation of health status information are attended by logistic considerations and interpretation challenges. We report a preliminary evaluation of cellular technology in capturing WOMAC NRS 3.1 Index data... - Clinimetric concepts in outcome assessment: the OMERACT filterN Bellamy
Department of Medicine, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada
J Rheumatol 26:948-50. 1999..The OMERACT group have recently proposed a novel user-friendly paradigm to capture the essential elements of truth, discrimination, and feasibility. This paradigm is termed the OMERACT filter... - Evaluation of clinically relevant changes in patient reported outcomes in knee and hip osteoarthritis: the minimal clinically important improvementF Tubach
Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale, Département d Epidémiologie, Biostatistique et Recherche Clinique, 75018 Paris, France
Ann Rheum Dis 64:29-33. 2005..In clinical trials, at the group level, results are usually reported as mean and standard deviation of the change in score, which is not meaningful for most readers... - Clinical evaluation of the WOMAC 3.0 OA Index in numeric rating scale format using a computerized touch screen versionR Theiler
Division of Rheumatology, Cantonal Hospital Aarau, Switzerland
Osteoarthritis Cartilage 10:479-81. 2002..It has been validated in patients with osteoarthritis (OA) of the hip or knee in a paper-based format... - Performance of the Norwegian version of AUSCAN--a disease-specific measure of hand osteoarthritisB Slatkowsky-Christensen
Department of Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, N 0319 Oslo, Norway
Osteoarthritis Cartilage 13:561-7. 2005..To examine the performance of the Norwegian version of the AUSCAN Index as a disease-specific health status measure in patients with hand osteoarthritis (OA)... - Evaluation of clinically relevant states in patient reported outcomes in knee and hip osteoarthritis: the patient acceptable symptom stateF Tubach
Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale E 0357, Département d Epidémiologie, Biostatistique et Recherche Clinique, 75018 Paris, France
Ann Rheum Dis 64:34-7. 2005..The patient acceptable symptom state (PASS) is the value beyond which patients can consider themselves well. This concept can help in interpreting results of clinical trials... - OMERACT-OARSI initiative: Osteoarthritis Research Society International set of responder criteria for osteoarthritis clinical trials revisitedT Pham
, Cochin Hospital, 27 rue du Faubourg Saint Jacques, 75014 Paris, France
Osteoarthritis Cartilage 12:389-99. 2004..Other studies, using other sets of OA patients, are required in order to further validate this proposed OMERACT-OARSI set of criteria... - Using patients' and rheumatologists' opinions to specify a short form of the WOMAC function subscaleF Tubach
Département d Epidémiologie, Biostatistique et Recherche Clinique, Groupe Hopitalier Bichat Claude Bernard, 75018 Paris, France
Ann Rheum Dis 64:75-9. 2005..Reducing the number of items of the subscale would enhance efficiency and compliance, particularly for use in clinical practice applications... - Responsiveness of the electronic touch screen WOMAC 3.1 OA Index in a short term clinical trial with rofecoxibR Theiler
Rheumatology Clinic and Institute for Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Stadtspital Triemli, Zurich, Switzerland
Osteoarthritis Cartilage 12:912-6. 2004..However, whether the e-WOMAC would be suitable for monitoring the effects of drug treatment is unknown... - Validation and patient acceptance of a computer touch screen version of the WOMAC 3.1 osteoarthritis indexH A Bischoff-Ferrari
Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Robert B Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
Ann Rheum Dis 64:80-4. 2005..To validate the WOMAC 3.1 in a touch screen computer format, which applies each question as a cartoon in writing and in speech (QUALITOUCH method), and to assess patient acceptance of the computer touch screen version... - Comparison of statistically derived ASAS improvement criteria for ankylosing spondylitis with clinically relevant improvement according to an expert panelA van Tubergen
Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Ann Rheum Dis 62:215-21. 2003..However, those patients who are considered as responders by applying the ASAS-IC are acknowledged as such by the expert panel as well as by patients' and doctors' judgments, and are therefore likely to be true responders... - A prospective, randomized, pragmatic, health outcomes trial evaluating the incorporation of hylan G-F 20 into the treatment paradigm for patients with knee osteoarthritis (Part 2 of 2): economic resultsG W Torrance
Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Osteoarthritis Cartilage 10:518-27. 2002..The cost effectiveness and cost utility of this new therapeutic modality were determined as part of a Canadian prospective, randomized, 1-year, open-label, multicentered trial... - Topical diclofenac and its role in pain and inflammation: an evidence-based reviewJ Zacher
Department of Orthopedic Surgery and Orthopedic Rheumatology, HELIOS Hospital Group, Berlin, Germany
Curr Med Res Opin 24:925-50. 2008..Topical diclofenac is widely used in the treatment of pain and inflammation. This comprehensive review assesses the safety and efficacy of topical diclofenac in a range of painful and inflammatory disorders... - Initiation of biological agents in patients with ankylosing spondylitis: results of a Delphi study by the ASAS GroupT Pham
, AP-HP, Rheumatology B Department, Cochin Hospital, Paris, France
Ann Rheum Dis 62:812-6. 2003..Further studies are required to assess their relevance and their consistency with clinical practice...