Accuracy of patient recall of hand and elbow disability on the QuickDASH questionnaire over a two-year period.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patient self-reporting questionnaires such as the QuickDASH, a shortened version of the Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder and Hand (DASH) outcome measure, are critical to current orthopaedic outcomes research. The use of these questionnaires could introduce recall bias in retrospective, case-control, and cross-sectional studies if no preoperative data has been collected prior to study inception. The purpose of this study was to quantify recall accuracy on the QuickDASH questionnaire as a function of the duration of the recall interval.

Methods

This cross-sectional study enrolled 140 patients with nontraumatic hand and elbow diseases. Patients were stratified into groups of thirty-five based on the time since their initial office visit (three months, six months, tw

SUBMITTER: Stepan JG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3821160 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature