The authors are members of the Collaboration of Aphasia Trialists (www. aphasiatrials. org),
which is supported by the COST–European Cooperation in Science and Technology [grant …

Brady et al.(2014), writing on behalf of the Collaboration of Aphasia Trialists, lend support to
our call for standardisation in aphasia research outcome measurement. In doing so, they …

Background Treatment success is the desired outcome in aphasia rehabilitation. However,
to date, there is a lack of consensus on what defines a'successful'result on a given aphasia …

Background A core outcome set (COS; an agreed, minimum set of outcomes) was needed to
address the heterogeneous measurement of outcomes in aphasia treatment research and to …

Introduction People with aphasia following stroke experience disproportionally poor
outcomes, yet there is no comprehensive approach to measuring the quality of aphasia …

Wallace, Worrall, Rose, and Le Dorze (2014) have laid out an ambitious agenda for
establishing a core outcome set (COS) for aphasia treatment research. We agree in principle …

Coordination of international aphasia research would minimise duplication of effort, support
synergistic international activities across languages and multidisciplinary perspectives, and …

Background: Aphasia treatment research lacks a uniform approach to outcome
measurement. A wide range of outcome instruments are used across trials and there is a …

Objective To establish international, multidisciplinary expert consensus on minimum
participant characteristic reporting standards in aphasia research (DESCRIBE project) …

Background: An important goal of aphasia rehabilitation research is to examine the degree
to which outcome measures capture change in impairment, functional communication tasks …