Clinical outcomes assessment in multiple sclerosis

R Rudick, J Fischer, J Antel… - Annals of Neurology …, 1996 - Wiley Online Library
Multiple Sclerosis Society to develop recommendations for optimal clinical assessment tools
for multiple sclerosis … These include the precise purpose for a clinical assessment tool, the …

Quality of life and its assessment in multiple sclerosis: integrating physical and psychological components of wellbeing

AJ Mitchell, J Benito-León, JMM González… - The Lancet …, 2005 - thelancet.com
Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) has been more intensively studied in multiple sclerosis
(MS) than in any other neurological disorder. Traditional medical models of impairment and …

Recommendations for a brief international cognitive assessment for multiple sclerosis (BICAMS)

DW Langdon, MP Amato, J Boringa… - Multiple Sclerosis …, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: Cognitive impairment in MS impacts negatively on many patients at all disease
stages and in all subtypes. Full clinical cognitive assessment is expensive, requiring expert …

The Multiple Sclerosis Functional Composite measure (MSFC): an integrated approach to MS clinical outcome assessment

, … Society Clinical Outcomes Assessment … - Multiple Sclerosis …, 1999 - journals.sagepub.com
… Clinical outcome assessment in Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is … are inadequate in their assessment
of key clinical dimensions … Society's Clinical Outcomes Assessment Task Force recently …

Functional assessment scales: a study of persons with multiple sclerosis.

CV Granger, AC Cotter, BB Hamilton… - Archives of physical …, 1990 - europepmc.org
… persons with multiple sclerosis (MS) by using combinations of functional assessment scales
… life be the standards by which functional assessment instruments are compared to reflect, in …

Validation of the functional assessment of multiple sclerosis quality of life instrument

DF Cella, K Dineen, B Arnason, A Reder, KA Webster… - Neurology, 1996 - AAN Enterprises
… MS called the Functional Assessment of Multiple Sclerosis (FAMS).The initial item pool
consisted of 88 questions: 28 from the general version of the Functional Assessment of Cancer …

Recent developments in the assessment of quality of life in multiple sclerosis (MS)

JS Fischer, NG LaRocca, DM Miller… - Multiple Sclerosis …, 1999 - journals.sagepub.com
Multiple sclerosis (MS) and its treatment have broad-ranging effects on quality of life. This
article reviews recent efforts to assess … the development of the Multiple Sclerosis Quality of Life …

A comprehensive assessment of the cost of multiple sclerosis in the United States

K Whetten-Goldstein, FA Sloan… - Multiple Sclerosis …, 1998 - journals.sagepub.com
… Comprehensive data on the costs of multiple sclerosis is sparse. We conducted a survey of
606 persons with MS who were members of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society to obtain …

Validity of performance scales for disability assessment in multiple sclerosis

RA Marrie, M Goldman - Multiple Sclerosis Journal, 2007 - journals.sagepub.com
… Recommended diagnostic criteria for multiple sclerosis: Guidelines from the international
panel on the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis. Annals of Neurology 2001; 50: 121—27. …

Outcomes assessment in multiple sclerosis clinical trials: a critical analysis

JN Whitaker, HF McFarland, P Rudge… - Multiple Sclerosis …, 1995 - journals.sagepub.com
The feasibility and precision of clinical trials for the treatment of MS must be improved Subsequent
to the approval by the Food and Drug Administration of the United States of interferon …