A review and evaluation of patient-reported outcome measures for spasticity in persons with spinal cord damage: Recommendations from the Ability Network - an international initiative.

Per Ertzgaard, Anand Nene, Carlotte Kiekens, Anthony S Burns

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Review in The journal of spinal cord medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

Patient-Reported Outcome Measures for assessing functioning, disability, and health of people with spinal cord injury - a scoping review.The journal of spinal cord medicine · 2026
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Measuring and valuing spillover effects in caregivers and families: A scoping review.PloS one · 2026
Article
Impact of spasticity on quality of life of Lebanese individuals with spinal cord injury: Validity and reliability of the Arabic modified patient-reported impact of spasticity measure.The journal of spinal cord medicine · 2025
Article
Review of the Most Cited Patient-Reported Outcome Measure (PROM) Studies Published in the Neurospine Surgical Literature.Cureus · 2023
Review
The spasticity-related quality of life 6-dimensions instrument in upper-limb spasticity: Part I Development and responsiveness.Journal of rehabilitation medicine · 2022
Article

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Per ErtzgaardRehabiliteringsmedicinska Kliniken, University Hospital, Linköping, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0001-6464-9130

Anand NeneFormerly, Roessingh Centre for Rehabilitation, Roessingh Research & Development, Enschede, The Netherlands.

Carlotte KiekensDepartment of Development and Regeneration, KU Leuven - University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0001-8500-7751

Anthony S BurnsDivision of Physiatry, Division of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-8679-3958

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Indexed as

Quality of LifeSpinal Cord InjuriesHumansMuscle SpasticityPatient Reported Outcome MeasuresHealth-related quality of lifeMuscle spasticityPatient reported outcome measuresSpinal cord diseasesSpinal cord injuries

Identifiers

PMID30758270

DOI10.1080/10790268.2019.1575533

PMCPMC7808317

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