tailieunhanh - báo cáo hóa học: " Magnitude and meaningfulness of change in SF-36 scores in four types of orthopedic surgery"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về sinh học được đăng trên tạp chí hóa học quốc tế đề tài : Magnitude and meaningfulness of change in SF-36 scores in four types of orthopedic surgery | BioMed Central Health and Quality of Life Outcomes Open Access Magnitude and meaningfulness of change in SF-36 scores in four types of orthopedic surgery Lucy Busija 1 Richard H Osborne1 Anna Nilsdotter2 Rachelle Buchbinder3 and Ewa M Roos4 5 Address 1Centre for Rheumatic Diseases Department of Medicine Royal Melbourne Hospital the University of Melbourne Melbourne Australia 2R D Department Halmstad Central Hospital Halmstad Sweden 3Monash Department of Clinical Epidemiology at Cabrini Hospital Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine Monash University Melbourne Australia 4Department of Orthopedics Clinical Sciences Lund Lund University Sweden and institute of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics University of Southern Denmark Odense Denmark Email Lucy Busija - Richard H Osborne - richardo@ Anna Nilsdotter - Rachelle Buchbinder - Ewa M Roos - eroos@ Corresponding author Published 31 July 2008 Received 28 January 2008 Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2008 6 55 doi 1477-7525-6-55 Accepted 31 July 2008 This article is available from http content 6 1 55 2008 Busija et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background The Medical Outcomes General Health Survey SF-36 is a widely used health status measure however limited evidence is available for its performance in orthopedic settings. The aim of this study was to examine the magnitude and meaningfulness of change and sensitivity of SF-36 subscales following orthopedic surgery. Methods Longitudinal data on outcomes of total hip replacement THR n 255 total knee replacement TKR n 103 arthroscopic .