## Abstract ## Objective To evaluate the measurement properties of the Health Assessment Questionnaire (HAQ) disability index (DI) for group comparisons in scleroderma trials, and to determine if the Scleroderma Health Assessment Questionnaire (SHAQ) visual analog scales confer any measurement adv
Correlates of the disability index of the health assessment questionnaire: A measure of functional impairment in systemic sclerosis
β Scribed by Philip J. Clements; Weng Kee Wong; Eric L. Hurwitz; Daniel E. Furst; Maureen Mayes; Barbara White; Fredrick Wigley; Michael Weisman; Walter Barr; Larry Moreland; Thomas A. Medsger Jr.; Virginia Steen; Richard Martin; David Collier; Arthur Weinstein; Edward Lally; John Varga; Steven Weiner; Brian Andrews; Micha Abeles; James Seibold
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 142 KB
- Volume
- 42
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0004-3591
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