Sentence examples for index of disability from inspiring English sources
The Health Assessment Questionnaire (HAQ) was used to provide an index of disability.
A disease-specific index of disability, the WOMAC Osteoarthritis Index, was used as a subjective measure of perceived health and physical function.
The normative values of BASFI that we have presented could be used as a reference benchmark for clinical studies using this index of disability.
The Health Assessment Questionnaire, a self-assessed questionnaire asking about the ability of the patient to perform several daily activities over the past week, was used to obtain an index of disability.
The Health Assessment Questionnaire HAQQ) is the most widely used index of disability in RA: it is sensitive, effective, reliable, cheap and rapid to administer, reflects the patients' point of view, and correlates well with measures of chronic inflammation [ 18].
Response to therapy was measured as follows: the four variable DAS28ESR (hereafter referred to as DAS4v) was used as an index of inflammatory control, 18 and the mHAQ as an index of disability.
Certain indices of disability in generalized anxiety disorder, particularly role impairment, are comparable in severity to those of major depressive disorder.
Functioning will be operationalized by indices of disability, quality of life, resilience, and remission from depression.
Based on self-reports of difficulty in carrying out various activities contained in the health status descriptions section of the questionnaire, an index of overall disability (WHO Disability Assessment Scale – WHODAS) was constructed.
In detail, candesartan reduced the number of days with headache including hours with headache, days with migraine, hours with migraine, headache severity index, levels of disability and days of sick leave although there were no differences in health-related quality of life [49].
The Barthel Index has been used as an index for disability of ADL and evaluations, and is known to be one of the risk factors for early unplanned readmission in older patients [ 23].
