Measuring functional health status with the COOP/WONCA Charts A manual

The following links are to the publication Measuring functional health status with the COOP/WONCA Charts A manual by C. van Weel, C. König - Zahn, F.W.M.M. Touw - Otten, N.P. van Duijn and B. Meyboom - de Jong. published jointly by the World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA), the European Research Group on Health Outcomes (ERGHO), the Northern Centre for Health Care Research (NCH), University of Groningen, The Netherlands, (ISBN 90 72156 33 1) 1995.

The book has been placed on the Internet for distribution to Family Doctors. The book is available in PDF Format on a section by section basis, including multilingual versions of the COOP/WONCA charts. You can order a printed copy of the book at the Northern Centre for Healthcare Research website.

PDF documents can be viewed using Adobe PDF Reader which can be downloaded free.

Enquires about the COOP/WONCA charts should be directed to admin@wonca.com.sg

To aid in speed of downloading the book has been split into Sections and Charts:

Introduction and Contents

Section One - Functional status measurement

Section Two - Description of the COOP/WONCA-charts, officially the Darmouth Coop Functional Health Assesment Charts/wonca  

Section Three - Study populations, descriptive data

Section Four - Validity

Section Five - Reliability

Section Six - Responsiveness to change

Section Seven - Criteria for crosscultural use

Section Eight - Conclusions

References

Permission for use of the COOP/WONCA charts

Appendix A - Bibliography

Appendix B - The available versions of the COOP/WONCA Charts

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Permission for use of the COOP/WONCA charts

The COOP/WONCA charts may be used for research and clinical care. Permission to use the COOP/WONCA charts specifically exclude the right to distribute, reproduce or share them in any form for commercial purposes.

Conditions:

• the COOP/WONCA charts should be used together with the minimum data set, recommended by the wonca research committee consisting of age, and sex. In addition, data on social economic status, living situation, housing could be registered.
• the way of administering the COOP/WONCA charts should be reported: self-administered or interview based; during or after face-to -face contacts; scored by patients themselves, proxies, nurses, doctors, or other health care providers.
• explicit reference to the source references are recommended (Nelson et al., 1987; Scholten & Van Weel, 1991; Van Weel et al., 1995).
• in order to carry out further validation research, data of other studies are kindly requested. Data should be sent to the Northern Centre for Health Care Research (nch), in raw format (not recoded). The data may be either sent on floppy disk or by electronic mail (see for address page 2).
• new translations and the way the translation was performed are kindly requested to be sent to the Northern Centre for Health Care Research (nch).
• one copy of every publication is kindly requested to be sent sent to the nch.

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  Enquires about the COOP/WONCA charts should be directed to admin@wonca.com.sg