To develop and validate an impairment questionnaire that will provide an estimate of whole-person impairment in patients who have suffered major trauma.
This was a multicenter prospective study involving a convenience sample of 43 volunteer participants who had sustained major trauma within 1 yr of study commencement. Patients were recruited from two trauma centers in Ontario, Canada. The impairment questionnaire was developed as a self-administered questionnaire based on the American Medical Association's Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment, Fourth Edition.
Clinician assessments of whole-person impairment showed adequate interrater (r > or = 0.55, P or = 0.62, P or = 0.57, P 0.60, P