The Oswestry Disability Index.

Journal article

STUDY DESIGN: The Oswestry Disability Index (ODI) has become one of the principal condition-specific outcome measures used in the management of spinal disorders. This review is based on publications using the ODI identified from the authors' personal databases, the Science Citation Index, and hand searches of Spine and current textbooks of spinal disorders. OBJECTIVES: To review the versions of this instrument, document methods by which it has been validated, collate data from scores found in...

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Authors: Fairbank, J; Pynsent, P

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Spine
• Volume: 25
• Issue: 22
• Pages: 2940-2952
• Publication date: 2000-11-01
• DOI: 10.1097/00007632-200011150-00017
• EISSN: 1528-1159
• ISSN: 0362-2436
• Language: English
• Keywords: Treatment Outcome; Databases, Bibliographic; Male; Reproducibility of Results; Humans; Female; Questionnaires; Spinal Diseases; Disability Evaluation