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Overview

Dagmar Amtmann is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States and specializes in medical research. Their work primarily spans the field of medicine, with significant contributions to epidemiology, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, public health, environmental and occupational health, psychiatry, mental health, and pharmacology.

Amtmann's research covers a range of topics related to health and rehabilitation, including musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation, burn injury management and outcomes, cerebral palsy and movement disorders, injury epidemiology and prevention, multiple sclerosis research studies, pain management and placebo effect, and traumatic brain injury research.

Frequent coauthors in Amtmann's publications include Alyssa M. Bamer, Kara McMullen, Rana Salem, Jeffrey C Schneider, and Mark P. Jensen.

Amtmann has published extensively in various academic journals and venues. The main publication venues for their work include:

  • Journal of Burn Care & Research
  • UNC Libraries
  • Journal of Pain
  • Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes
  • Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders

Among recent papers involving Amtmann's authorship are the following:

  • "Patient Health Questionnaire-9 scores do not accurately estimate depression prevalence: individual participant data meta-analysis," 2020, Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
  • "Development and validation of an interpretive guide for PROMIS scores," 2020, Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes
  • "Clinical outcome assessment in clinical trials of chronic pain treatments," 2021, PAIN Reports
  • "mHealth and patient generated health data: stakeholder perspectives on opportunities and barriers for transforming healthcare," 2020, mHealth
  • "Proceedings from the Consensus Conference on Trauma Patient-Reported Outcome Measures," 2020, Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Best Publications

  • The patient-reported outcomes measurement information system (PROMIS) developed and tested its first wave of adult self-reported health outcome item banks: 2005-2008

    David Cella;William Riley;Arthur Stone;Nan Rothrock

  • Development of a PROMIS item bank to measure pain interference

    Dagmar Amtmann;Karon F. Cook;Mark P. Jensen;Wen Hung Chen

  • Report of the NIH task force on research standards for chronic low back pain

    Richard A. Deyo;Samuel F. Dworkin;Dagmar Amtmann;Gunnar Andersson

  • PROMIS® Adult Health Profiles: Efficient Short-Form Measures of Seven Health Domains.

    David Cella;Seung W. Choi;David M. Condon;Benjamin David Schalet

  • PROMIS measures of pain, fatigue, negative affect, physical function, and social function demonstrated clinical validity across a range of chronic conditions

    Karon F. Cook;Sally E. Jensen;Benjamin D. Schalet;Jennifer L. Beaumont

  • Accuracy of the PHQ-2 Alone and in Combination With the PHQ-9 for Screening to Detect Major Depression: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

    Brooke Levis;Brooke Levis;Ying Sun;Chen He;Yin Wu;Yin Wu

  • Having a Fit: Impact of Number of Items and Distribution of Data on Traditional Criteria for Assessing IRT’s Unidimensionality Assumption

    Karon F. Cook;Michael A. Kallen;Dagmar Amtmann

  • Development of six PROMIS pediatrics proxy-report item banks

    Debra E. Irwin;Heather E. Gross;Brian Dale Stucky;David Thissen

  • Falls in multiple sclerosis.

    Patricia N. Matsuda;Anne Shumway-Cook;Alyssa M. Bamer;Shana L. Johnson

  • Preventing written expression disabilities through early and continuing assessment and intervention for handwriting and/or spelling problems: Research into practice.

    Virginia W. Berninger;Dagmar Amtmann

  • Measuring Communicative Participation: A Review of Self-Report Instruments in Speech-Language Pathology

    Tanya L. Eadie;Kathryn M. Yorkston;Estelle R. Klasner;Brian J. Dudgeon

  • The Communicative Participation Item Bank (CPIB): Item Bank Calibration and Development of a Disorder-Generic Short Form

    Carolyn Baylor;Kathryn Yorkston;Tanya Eadie;Jiseon Kim

  • Comparing CESD-10, PHQ-9, and PROMIS Depression Instruments in Individuals with Multiple Sclerosis

    Dagmar Amtmann;Jiseon Kim;Hyewon Chung;Alyssa M. Bamer

  • Prevalence of sleep problems in individuals with multiple sclerosis

    Alyssa M. Bamer;K. L. Johnson;D. Amtmann;G. H. Kraft

  • Development and psychometric analysis of the PROMIS pain behavior item bank

    Dennis A. Revicki;Wen Hung Chen;Neesha Harnam;Karon F. Cook

  • Electronic Self-Report Assessment for Cancer and Self-Care Support: Results of a Multicenter Randomized Trial

    Donna L. Berry;Fangxin Hong;Barbara Halpenny;Anne H. Partridge

  • Symptom Burden in Persons With Spinal Cord Injury

    Mark P. Jensen;Carrie M. Kuehn;Dagmar Amtmann;Diane D. Cardenas

  • Comparison of the psychometric properties of two fatigue scales in multiple sclerosis.

    Dagmar Amtmann;Alyssa M. Bamer;Vanessa Noonan;Nina Lang

  • The cost and benefits of employment: a qualitative study of experiences of persons with multiple sclerosis.

    Kurt L Johnson;Kathryn M Yorkston;Estelle R Klasner;Carrie M Kuehn

  • Evidence from diverse clinical populations supported clinical validity of PROMIS pain interference and pain behavior

    Robert L. Askew;Karon Frances Cook;Dennis A. Revicki;David Cella

  • Construct Validity of the Prosthetic Limb Users Survey of Mobility (PLUS-M) in Adults With Lower Limb Amputation.

    Brian J. Hafner;Ignacio A. Gaunaurd;Sara J. Morgan;Dagmar Amtmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Karon F. Cook
Karon F. Cook Northwestern University
Kathryn M. Yorkston
Kathryn M. Yorkston University of Washington
Mark P. Jensen
Mark P. Jensen University of Washington
Dawn M. Ehde
Dawn M. Ehde University of Washington
Jin Shei Lai
Jin Shei Lai Northwestern University
Seung W. Choi
Seung W. Choi The University of Texas at Austin
Sean Mackey
Sean Mackey Stanford University
Virginia W. Berninger
Virginia W. Berninger University of Washington
David Thissen
David Thissen University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
James W. Varni
James W. Varni Texas A&M University

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