Osteoarthritis and cartilage
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Osteoarthr. Cartil. · Jul 2003
Linking osteoarthritis-specific health-status measures to the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF).
The objective of this study was to link the Western Ontario and McMaster Universities (WOMAC) and Lequesne-Algofunctional indices to the ICF on the basis of linking rules developed specifically to accomplish this aim. The linking process enables the understanding of the relationship between health-status measures and the ICF. ⋯ The results of the linking process reflect both the structure of the two questionnaires studied and the relationship between them, showing that the ICF classification can become the cardinal reference for existing health-status measures.