Lawren H Daltroy

Biographic Data

ID1740826
NAMELawren H Daltroy
GIVEN NAMESLawren H
FAMILY NAMEDaltroy
SIGNATUREDALTROY L H
AFFILIATIONSNortheastern University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS20
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1995
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2002
H-INDEX1

  • Measuring Clinically Important Changes With Patient-Oriented Questionnaires

    Matthew H Liang, Robert Lew et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2002References: 29

    BACKGROUND: The measurement of the patient's experience with a condition or an illness is an important and quantifiable outcome and an example of action research. By making these concerns paramount, the goals and processes of health care can be redirected from anatomical and physiologic restoration to patient-oriented outcomes. At the same time, research can illuminate the complex mechanisms responsible. METHODS: Critical, analytic synthesis and …

  • Discrepancies between self-reported and observed physical function in the elderly

    Open AccessLawren H Daltroy, Martin G Larson et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine1999Cited by: 19References: 3

  • Learning from unreliability

    Open AccessCarolyn E Schwartz, Lawren H DaltroyARTICLESocial Science & Medicine1999Cited by: 1References: 53

  • Self-Reported Coping Behavior in Health and Disease

    Carolyn E Schwartz, Chung-Kang Peng et al.ARTICLEBehavioral Medicine1998

    The authors tested the hypothesis that individuals with a variety of severe chronic illnesses and the healthy elderly exhibit a loss of flexibility in their response to a variety of stressors, compared with healthy adults. A card sort game designed to assess self-reported coping behavior under different stressful life situations was used to compare healthy adults with individuals with multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus eryth…

  • Patients' Health as a Predictor of Physician and Patient Behavior in Medical Visits

    Judith A Hall, Debra L Roter et al.ARTICLEMedical Care1996References: 28

    OBJECTIVES: Although some patient characteristics are known to be related to physician and patient communication in medical encounters, very little is known about the impact of patients' health status on communication processes. The authors assess relations of patients' physical and emotional health status to verbal and nonverbal communication between physicians and patients in four original studies, and combine results across the four studies us…

  • Objectively measuring physical ability in elderly persons

    Lawren H Daltroy, C B Phillips et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health1995References: 1

    The Physical Capacity Evaluation, a performance measure of functional capabilities comprised of 13 tasks simulating those used in activities of daily living, was tested on 289 community-dwelling elderly people and compared against a widely used self-report measure of function, the Health Assessment Questionnaire. Factor analysis identified one dominant component in each instrument. Internal consistency reliability (Cronbach's alpha) was .90 for b…

  • Inference of object use from pantomimed actions by aphasics and patients with right hemisphere lesions

    Open AccessLucia M Vaina, Harold Goodglass et al.ARTICLESynthese1995References: 14