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- Title
Disability weight for each level of the Expanded Disability Status Scale in multiple sclerosis.
- Authors
Cho, Joong-Yang; Hong, Keun-Sik; Kim, Ho Jin; Kim, Su-Hyun; Min, Ju-Hong; Kim, Nam-Hee; Ahn, Suk-Won; Park, Min Su; An, Jae-Young; Kim, Byung-Jo; Kim, Woojun
- Abstract
The article presents a study which aims to give disability weights (DWs) for each of the ordinal Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS) levels which are used ordinal disability scale for multiple sclerosis (MS). The study conducted the person trade-off (PTO) procedure to trigger DWs for EDSS categories and used the modified Delphi process to achieve consensus among pace. Results showed that DWs supported that EDSS is an ordinal scale with highly variable intervals.
- Subjects
DISABILITIES; MULTIPLE sclerosis; QUALITY of life; DISEASE progression; CONFIDENCE intervals; PATIENTS
- Publication
Multiple Sclerosis Journal, 2014, Vol 20, Issue 9, p1217
- ISSN
1352-4585
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1352458513518259