Chertsey Outcome Score for Trauma: Development and validation of a new unifying patient reported outcome measure for orthopaedic trauma.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Lately there is an increasing tendency of using Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) as a final indicator of the outcome of many surgical treatments in orthopaedics and in other medical specialties. Currently there are many outcome scores in orthopaedics and most of them are site specific. In the contrary there is a lack of trauma specific outcome scores.

Methods

We have designed a new PROM especially for orthopaedic trauma patients, in order to measure in what extent the patients manage to return to their pre-injury state. This score uses as baseline the pre-injury status of the patient and has the aim to determine the percentage of rehabilitation after treatment for any injury.

Results

A total of 60 Chertsey Outcome Score for Trauma (COST) questionnaire

SUBMITTER: Iliopoulos E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5855518 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature