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2023

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Medicine

D-Index
114
Citations
56257
World Ranking
4669
National Ranking
58

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2012 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)

Overview

Gerold Stucki is affiliated with the University of Lucerne in Switzerland and has a research focus predominantly in the field of Medicine. Their scholarly activity encompasses several subfields, including Psychiatry and Mental Health, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Rehabilitation, Epidemiology, and Sociology and Political Science.

The scientist's work addresses research topics such as Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders, Spinal Cord Injury Research, Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery, the Delphi Technique in Research, Chronic Disease Management Strategies, Health Systems including Economic Evaluations and Quality of Life, as well as Musculoskeletal Pain and Rehabilitation.

Among their recent published papers are:

  • "Covid-19 and Post Intensive Care Syndrome: A Call for Action," 2020, Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine
  • "Employment Among People With Spinal Cord Injury in 22 Countries Across the World: Results From the International Spinal Cord Injury Community Survey," 2020, Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
  • "Cohort Profile of the International Spinal Cord Injury Community Survey Implemented in 22 Countries," 2020, Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
  • "The human functioning revolution: implications for health systems and sciences," 2023, Frontiers in Science
  • "Rehabilitation Definition for Research Purposes," 2022, American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation

Frequent co-authors working with Stucki include Melissa Selb, Jivko Stoyanov, Birgit Prodinger, Marija Glišić, and Mirjam Brach.

Stucki's research appears regularly in specific publication venues, with notable recurring contributions to:

  • Spinal Cord
  • Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine
  • European Journal of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

In recognition of their work, Gerold Stucki was awarded membership in the National Academy of Medicine in 2012.

Best Publications

  • Topical Review and RecommendationsCore outcome measures for chronic pain clinical trials: IMMPACT recommendations

    Robert H. Dworkin;Dennis C. Turk;John T. Farrar;Jennifer A. Haythornthwaite

  • Core outcome domains for chronic pain clinical trials: IMMPACT recommendations.

    Dennis C Turk;Robert H Dworkin;Robert R Allen;Nicholas Bellamy

  • The Self-Administered Comorbidity Questionnaire: a new method to assess comorbidity for clinical and health services research.

    Oliver Sangha;Gerold Stucki;Matthew H. Liang;Anne H. Fossel

  • ICF linking rules: an update based on lessons learned.

    Alarcos Cieza;Szilvia Geyh;Somnath Chatterji;Nenad Kostanjsek

  • Linking health-status measurements to the international classification of functioning, disability and health.

    Alarcos Cieza;Thomas Brockow;Thomas Ewert;Edda Amman

  • ASAS/EULAR recommendations for the management of ankylosing spondylitis

    J. Zochling;D. Van Der Heijde;R. Burgos-Vargas;E. Collantes

  • Smallest detectable and minimal clinically important differences of rehabilitation intervention with their implications for required sample sizes using WOMAC and SF-36 quality of life measurement instruments in patients with osteoarthritis of the lower extremities.

    Felix Angst;André Aeschlimann;Gerold Stucki

  • RETRACTED: Value and application of the ICF in rehabilitation medicine

    Gerold Stucki;Thomas Ewert;Alarcos Cieza

  • Development of ICF Core Sets for patients with chronic conditions.

    Alarcos Cieza;Thomas Ewert;T Berdirhan Ustün;Somnath Chatterji

  • ICF Core Sets for stroke.

    Szilvia Geyh;Alarcos Cieza;Jan Schouten;Hugh Dickson

  • Use of the ICF Model as a Clinical Problem-Solving Tool in Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Medicine

    Werner A Steiner;Liliane Ryser;Erika Huber;Daniel Uebelhart

  • The burden of musculoskeletal conditions at the start of the new millennium

    J. Agel;K. Akesson;P. C. Amadio;M. Anderson

  • Measurement properties of a self-administered outcome measure in lumbar spinal stenosis.

    Gerold Stucki;Lawren Daltroy;Matthew H. Liang;Steven J. Lipson

  • Application of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) in clinical practice.

    G. Stucki;A. Cieza;T. Ewert;N. Kostanjsek

  • The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF): a unifying model for the conceptual description of the rehabilitation strategy.

    Gerold Stucki;Alarcos Cieza;John Melvin

  • The INTeRNaTIONal ClaSSIFICaTION OF FuNCTIONINg, DISabIlITy aND healTh: a uNIFyINg MODel FOR The CONCepTual DeSCRIpTION OF The RehabIlITaTION STRaTegy

    Gerold Stucki;Alarcos Cieza;John Melvin;Swiss Paraplegic

  • International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF): A Promising Framework and Classification for Rehabilitation Medicine

    Gerold Stucki

  • Relative responsiveness of condition-specific and generic health status measures in degenerative lumbar spinal stenosis

    Gerold Stucki;Matthew H. Liang;Anne H. Fossel;Jeffrey N. Katz

  • Predictors of surgical outcome in degenerative lumbar spinal stenosis.

    Jeffrey N. Katz;Gerold Stucki;Stephen J. Lipson;Anne H. Fossel

  • Content comparison of Health Related Quality of Life (HRQOL) instruments based on the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF)

    Alarcos Cieza;Gerold Stucki

Frequent Co-Authors

Alarcos Cieza
Alarcos Cieza World Health Organization
Jerome Bickenbach
Jerome Bickenbach University of Lucerne
Beat A. Michel
Beat A. Michel University of Zurich
Marcel W M Post
Marcel W M Post University Medical Center Groningen
Annelies Boonen
Annelies Boonen Maastricht University Medical Centre
Matthew H. Liang
Matthew H. Liang Brigham and Women's Hospital
Alan Tennant
Alan Tennant University of Leeds
Somnath Chatterji
Somnath Chatterji World Health Organization
Jeffrey N. Katz
Jeffrey N. Katz Brigham and Women's Hospital
Walter R. Frontera
Walter R. Frontera University of Puerto Rico

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