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Professor Krysia Dziedzic's Outputs (191)

Hand assessment in older adults with musculoskeletal hand problems: a reliability study (2011)
Journal Article
Dziedzic. (2011). Hand assessment in older adults with musculoskeletal hand problems: a reliability study. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 3 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2474-12-3

Background
Musculoskeletal hand pain is common in the general population. This study aims to investigate the inter- and intra-observer reliability of two trained observers conducting a simple clinical interview and physical examination for hand prob... Read More about Hand assessment in older adults with musculoskeletal hand problems: a reliability study.

What are the important components of the clinical assessment of hand problems in older adults in primary care? Results of a Delphi study (2010)
Journal Article
Dziedzic. (2010). What are the important components of the clinical assessment of hand problems in older adults in primary care? Results of a Delphi study. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 178 -?. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2474-11-178

Background: To identify clinical questions and assessments regarded by health care practitioners as important when assessing undifferentiated hand pain or problems in adults aged 50 years and over presenting to primary care.

Methods: A purposively... Read More about What are the important components of the clinical assessment of hand problems in older adults in primary care? Results of a Delphi study.

Radiographic thumb osteoarthritis: frequency, patterns and associations with pain and clinical assessment findings in a community-dwelling population. (2010)
Journal Article
Marshall, M., Myers, H., Dziedzic, K., Nicholls, E., & Van Der Windt, D. (2010). Radiographic thumb osteoarthritis: frequency, patterns and associations with pain and clinical assessment findings in a community-dwelling population. Rheumatology, 50(4), 735 - 739. https://doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/keq371

OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to investigate: (i) the frequency and patterns of radiographic OA (ROA) in the thumb joints; and (ii) associations between thumb ROA and the clinical characteristics of thumb OA in older adults with hand pain or... Read More about Radiographic thumb osteoarthritis: frequency, patterns and associations with pain and clinical assessment findings in a community-dwelling population..

Research priorities for non-pharmacological therapies for common musculoskeletal problems: nationally and internationally agreed recommendations (2009)
Journal Article
Hay, Van Der Windt, & Dziedzic. (2009). Research priorities for non-pharmacological therapies for common musculoskeletal problems: nationally and internationally agreed recommendations. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 3 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2474-10-3

Musculoskeletal problems such as low back pain, neck, knee and shoulder pain are leading causes of disability and activity limitation in adults and are most frequently managed within primary care. There is a clear trend towards large, high quality tr... Read More about Research priorities for non-pharmacological therapies for common musculoskeletal problems: nationally and internationally agreed recommendations.

269 DEFINING 18-MONTH OUTCOME IN CLINICAL SUB-GROUPS OF HAND OSTEOARTHRITIS IN OLDER ADULTS: THE CLINICAL ASSESSMENT STUDY OF THE HAND (CAS-HA) (2008)
Journal Article
Dziedzic, K., Nicholls, E., Myers, H., Peat, G., Thomas, E., Marshall, M., & van der Windt, D. (2008). 269 DEFINING 18-MONTH OUTCOME IN CLINICAL SUB-GROUPS OF HAND OSTEOARTHRITIS IN OLDER ADULTS: THE CLINICAL ASSESSMENT STUDY OF THE HAND (CAS-HA). Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, 16(S4), S121-S122. https://doi.org/10.1016/s1063-4584%2808%2960313-1

The Clinical Assessment Study of the Hand (CAS-HA): a prospective study of musculoskeletal hand problems in the general population (2007)
Journal Article
Myers, H., Nicholls, E., Handy, J., Peat, G., Thomas, E., Duncan, R., …Dziedzic, K. (2007). The Clinical Assessment Study of the Hand (CAS-HA): a prospective study of musculoskeletal hand problems in the general population. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 8, Article 85. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2474-8-85

Pain in the hand affects an estimated 12-21% of the population, and at older ages the hand is one of the most common sites of pain and osteoarthritis. The association between symptomatic hand osteoarthritis and disability in everyday life has not bee... Read More about The Clinical Assessment Study of the Hand (CAS-HA): a prospective study of musculoskeletal hand problems in the general population.

The Knee Clinical Assessment Study-CAS(K). A prospective study of knee pain and knee osteoarthritis in the general population: baseline recruitment and retention at 18 months (2006)
Journal Article
Dziedzic. (2006). The Knee Clinical Assessment Study-CAS(K). A prospective study of knee pain and knee osteoarthritis in the general population: baseline recruitment and retention at 18 months. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 30 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2474-7-30

Background
Selective non-participation at baseline (due to non-response and non-consent) and loss to follow-up are
important concerns for longitudinal observational research. We investigated these matters in the context of baseline recruitment and... Read More about The Knee Clinical Assessment Study-CAS(K). A prospective study of knee pain and knee osteoarthritis in the general population: baseline recruitment and retention at 18 months.