Assessing Disability and Change on Individual Patients: A Report of a Patient Specific Measure

The purpose of this study was to assess a patient specific measure for eliciting and recording patients' problems. While the notion was to develop a measure that would be applicable to a number of conditions or disabilities, this study assessed the measure's performance on 63 out-patients with mechanical low back pain. Patients were asked to identify up to five important activities they were having difficulty with as a result of their back pain....