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01-10-2019 | Spinal Surgery | Responses to "Advancing quality‑of‑life research by deepening our understanding of response shift" by Bruce D. Rapkin & Carolyn E. Schwartz

Measurement of appraisal is a valuable adjunct to the current spine outcome tools: a clinician’s perspective on the Rapkin and Schwartz commentary

Author: Joel A. Finkelstein

Published in: Quality of Life Research | Issue 10/2019

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I have read with interest the commentary by Bruce Rapkin and Carolyn Schwartz, “Advancing quality-of-life research by deepening our understanding of response shift: A unifying theory of appraisal” [1]. These authors have identified the teleological assumption that there can be no quality-of-life (QOL) measurement and no patient-reported outcomes without some sort of cognitive appraisal going on. The QOL Appraisal Model by Rapkin and Schwartz [2] has built on the original foundational model of Sprangers and Schwartz [3] and enables the researcher to account for a mechanism of response shift at the individual level. The hard work now begins and putting a box around this abstraction with scientific rigor is the achievement I feel this commentary has outlined. I will speak to this from my area of clinical practice as a spine surgeon. …

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Title: Measurement of appraisal is a valuable adjunct to the current spine outcome tools: a clinician’s perspective on the Rapkin and Schwartz commentary
Author: Joel A. Finkelstein
Publication date: 01-10-2019
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Keyword: Spinal Surgery
Published in: Quality of Life Research / Issue 10/2019
Print ISSN: 0962-9343
Electronic ISSN: 1573-2649
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-019-02275-w

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Measurement of appraisal is a valuable adjunct to the current spine outcome tools: a clinician’s perspective on the Rapkin and Schwartz commentary

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