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Claire Bombardier
Researcher at University of Toronto
Publications - 310
Citations - 68010
Claire Bombardier is an academic researcher from University of Toronto. The author has contributed to research in topics: Rheumatoid arthritis & Randomized controlled trial. The author has an hindex of 100, co-authored 295 publications receiving 61805 citations. Previous affiliations of Claire Bombardier include Women's College Hospital & University Health Network.
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Guidelines for the process of cross-cultural adaptation of self-report measures.
TL;DR: The guidelines described in this document are based on a review of cross-cultural adaptation in the medical, sociological, and psychological literature and led to the description of a thorough adaptation process designed to maximize the attainment of semantic, idiomatic, experiential, and conceptual equivalence between the source and target questionnaires.
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Cross-cultural adaptation of health-related quality of life measures: literature review and proposed guidelines.
TL;DR: These guidelines include recommendations for obtaining semantic, idiomatic, experiential and conceptual equivalence in translation by using back-translation techniques and committee review, pre-testing techniques and re-examining the weight of scores.
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Derivation of the SLEDAI. A disease activity index for lupus patients. The Committee on Prognosis Studies in SLE.
TL;DR: The development of the SLEDAI is described, a validated model of experienced clinicians' global assessments of disease activity in lupus, which represents the consensus of a group of experts in the field of l upus research.
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Development of an upper extremity outcome measure: The DASH (disabilities of the arm, shoulder, and head)
TL;DR: The goal is to produce a brief, self-administered measure of symptoms and functional status, with a focus on physical function, to be used by clinicians in daily practice and as a research tool.
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American college of rheumatology preliminary definition of improvement in rheumatoid arthritis
David T. Felson,David T. Felson,Jennifer J. Anderson,Jennifer J. Anderson,Maarten Boers,Claire Bombardier,Claire Bombardier,Daniel E. Furst,Daniel E. Furst,Charles H. Goldsmith,Charles H. Goldsmith,Linda M. Katz,Linda M. Katz,Robert W. Lightfoot,Robert W. Lightfoot,Harold E. Paulus,Harold E. Paulus,Vibeke Strand,Vibeke Strand,Peter Tugwell,Peter Tugwell,Michael E. Weinblatt,Michael E. Weinblatt,H. James Williams,H. James Williams,Frederick Wolfe,Stephanie Kieszak +26 more
TL;DR: The results suggest that the definition of improvement presented is statistically powerful and does not identify a large percentage of placebo-treated patients as being improved, which the authors hope will be used widely in RA trials.