Measurement of joint health in persons with haemophilia: A systematic review of the measurement properties of haemophilia-specific instruments.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Accurate assessment of joint health in persons with haemophilia is crucial. Several haemophilia-specific measurement tools are available, but an overview of the measurement properties is lacking.

Aim

To provide an overview of the measurement properties of haemophilia-specific measurement tools to assess clinical joint health.

Methods

MEDLINE and EMBASE were searched for reports on reliability, validity or responsiveness of the World Federation of Haemophilia Orthopedic Joint Score (WFH), Colorado Physical Examination Score (CPE), joint examination score by Petrini (PJS) and Hemophilia Joint Health Score (HJHS). Methodological quality of the studies was assessed using an adapted COSMIN checklist.

Results

The search yielded 2905 unique hits, and 98 p

SUBMITTER: Gouw SC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7379965 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature