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Comment
. 2015 Dec 22;13(1):ijerph13010066.
doi: 10.3390/ijerph13010066.

Response to Madans et al. Comments on Sabariego et al. Measuring Disability: Comparing the Impact of Two Data Collection Approaches on Disability Rates. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health, 2015, 12, 10329-10351

Carla Sabariego  1 , Cornelia Oberhauser  2 , Aleksandra Posarac  3 , Jerome Bickenbach  4 , Nenad Kostanjsek  5 , Somnath Chatterji  6 , Alana Officer  7 , Michaela Coenen  8 , Lay Chhan  9 , Alarcos Cieza  10
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Response to Madans et al. Comments on Sabariego et al. Measuring Disability: Comparing the Impact of Two Data Collection Approaches on Disability Rates. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health, 2015, 12, 10329-10351

Carla Sabariego et al. Int J Environ Res Public Health. .

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We greatly appreciate and wish to thank Madans, Mont and Loeb for the issues they raise in their Comment [1] on our paper "Measuring Disability: Using the WHO Model Disability Survey to Address the Impact of Screeners on Disability Rates" [2]. [...].

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