May 2010

Editorial Board
Published in issue: May 2010
IFC

Table of Contents
Published in issue: May 2010
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AHRQ Series: Methods Guide for Comparative Effectiveness Reviews

AHRQ Series Editorial: Public involvement improves methods development in comparative effectiveness reviews
• Mark Helfand
Published in issue: May 2010
p471-473

AHRQ Series Commentary 1: Rating the evidence in comparative effectiveness reviews
• Yngve Falck-Ytter,
• Holger Schünemann,
• Gordon Guyatt
Published online: March 02, 2010
p474-475
AHRQ Series Commentary 2: Informative, timely, and valuable: an outsider view of the Comparative Effectiveness Review articles
• David Tovey
Published in issue: May 2010
p476-478
AHRQ Series Commentary 3: The United States addresses comparative effectiveness but not cost-effectiveness through the Effective Health-Care Program
• Nick Freemantle,
• Michael F. Drummond
Published in issue: May 2010
p479-480
AHRQ Series Paper 1: Comparing medical interventions: AHRQ and the Effective Health-Care Program
• Jean Slutsky,
• David Atkins,
• Stephanie Chang,
• Beth A. Collins Sharp
Published online: October 02, 2008
p481-483

AHRQ Series Paper 2: Principles for developing guidance: AHRQ and the Effective Health-Care Program
• Mark Helfand,
• Howard Balshem
Published online: August 28, 2009
p484-490

AHRQ Series Paper 3: Identifying, selecting, and refining topics for comparative effectiveness systematic reviews: AHRQ and the Effective Health-Care program
• Evelyn P. Whitlock,
• Sarah A. Lopez,
• Stephanie Chang,
• Mark Helfand,
• Michelle Eder,
• Nicole Floyd
Published online: June 22, 2009
p491-501
AHRQ Series Paper 4: Assessing harms when comparing medical interventions: AHRQ and the Effective Health-Care Program
• Roger Chou,
• Naomi Aronson,
• David Atkins,
• ...
• Evelyn Whitlock,
• Timothy J. Wilt,
• David Moher
Published online: September 29, 2008
p502-512
AHRQ Series Paper 5: Grading the strength of a body of evidence when comparing medical interventions—Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the Effective Health-Care Program
• Douglas K. Owens,
• Kathleen N. Lohr,
• David Atkins,
• ...
• Eric B. Bass,
• Stephanie Chang,
• Mark Helfand
Published online: July 13, 2009
p513-523

Original Articles

Mind the MIC: large variation among populations and methods
• Caroline B. Terwee,
• Leo D. Roorda,
• Joost Dekker,
• ...
• Kelvin P. Jordan,
• Peter Croft,
• Henrica C.W. de Vet
Published online: November 19, 2009
p524-534

Short-form Zarit Caregiver Burden Interviews were valid in advanced conditions
• Irene J. Higginson,
• Wei Gao,
• Diana Jackson,
• Joanna Murray,
• Richard Harding
Published online: October 16, 2009
p535-542
The use of an item response theory–based disability item bank across diseases: accounting for differential item functioning
• Nadine Weisscher,
• Cees A. Glas,
• Marinus Vermeulen,
• Rob J. De Haan
Published online: November 02, 2009
p543-549

The Italian version of the Lower Extremity Functional Scale was reliable, valid, and responsive
• Angelo Cacchio,
• Elisabetta De Blasis,
• Stefano Necozione,
• ...
• Ferdinando di Orio,
• Domenico De Blasis,
• Valter Santilli
Published online: November 13, 2009
p550-557

High agreement of self-report and physician-diagnosed somatic conditions yields limited bias in examining mental–physical comorbidity
• Harald Baumeister,
• Levente Kriston,
• Jürgen Bengel,
• Martin Härter
Published online: December 04, 2009
p558-565
BLISS index using WOMAC index detects between-group differences at low-intensity symptom states in osteoarthritis
• Nicholas Bellamy,
• Mary J. Bell,
• Charlie H. Goldsmith,
• ...
• Jean-Pierre Raynauld,
• George W. Torrance,
• Peter Tugwell
Published online: November 09, 2009
p566-574

A questionnaire found disease-specific WORC index is not more responsive than SPADI and OSS in rotator cuff disease
• Ole M. Ekeberg,
• Erik Bautz-Holter,
• Anne Keller,
• Einar K. Tveitå,
• Niels G. Juel,
• Jens I. Brox
Published online: October 16, 2009
p575-584