Author	WONCA Classification Committee. author
Title	Functional Status Measurement in Primary Care [electronic resource]
Imprint	New York, NY : Springer New York, 1990
Connect to	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8977-4
Descript	XXVII, 267 p. 11 illus. online resource

The assessment of outcomes of medical interventions is a central concern of patients, physicians, nurses, and of individuals, groups and government agencies who pay for medical care. Outcome assessments are incomplete without measurements of functional status. Functional Status Measurement in Primary Care provides an indepth discussion of psychometric issues as applied to functional status assessment and details the practical experience of Family Physicians/General Practitioners in several countries with functional status measurements in their patient populations. International experience with the use of the Darthmouth COOP Charts is described along with their practical application in the daily practice of physicians and nurses of ambulatory patients

I Psychometric Issues -- 1 Psychometric Considerations in Functional Status Instruments -- 2 The Development of a New Measuring Instrument -- II Primary Care Considerations -- 3 The Use of Functional Status Assessment Within the Framework of the International Classification of Primary Care -- 4 The History of Health Status Assessment from the Point of View of the General Practitioner -- 5 Disease-Specific Functional Status Assessment -- 6 Functional Status Assessment in Relation to Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine -- 7 A Clinical Measure for Evaluating Patient Functioning in Diabetics -- III Dartmouth COOP Charts -- 8 The COOP Function Charts: A System to Measure Patient Function in Physiciansโ{128}{153} Offices -- 9 Studies with the Dartmouth COOP Charts in General Practice: Comparison with the Nottingham Health Profile and the General Health Questionnaire -- 10 Assessing Function: Does It Really Make a Difference? A Preliminary Evaluation of the Acceptability and Utility of the COOP Function Charts -- 11 Use of the Dartmouth COOP Charts in a Calgary Practice -- 12 A Trial of the Dartmouth COOP Charts in Japan -- IV Other Functional Assessment Instruments -- 13 Results of Studies of the Auckland Health Status Survey -- 14 Functional Status Assessment in the Elderly -- 15 Studies Using the Nottingham Health Profile in General Practice -- 16 Position Paper on the Assessment of Functional Status in Primary Care in a Developing Country Pakistan -- 17 Use of a Functional Status Instrument in the Danish Health Study