tailieunhanh - báo cáo hóa học:" The Oxford hip score: the patient's perspective"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về hóa học được đăng trên tạp chí sinh học đề tài : The Oxford hip score: the patient's perspective | BioMed Central Health and Quality of Life Outcomes Research The Oxford hip score the patient s perspective Vikki Wylde Ian D Learmonth and Victoria J Cavendish Open Access Address Academic Orthopaedic Unit University of Bristol Avon Orthopaedic Centre Southmead Hospital Westbury-on-Trym Bristol BS10 5NB UK Email Vikki Wylde - Ian D Learmonth - Victoria J Cavendish - Corresponding author Published 31 October 2005 Received 24 August 2005 Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2005 3 66 doi l477-7525-3-66 Accepted 3 I October 2005 This article is available from http contenV3 1 66 2005 Wylde 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 In the last 25 years assessment of orthopaedic intervention has become patient focused with the development of self-completion patient-centred outcome measures. The Oxford hip score OHS is a joint specific outcome measure tool designed to assess disability in patients undergoing total hip replacement THR . Although the psychometric properties of the OHS have been rigorously examined there is little research on the patient s perspective of the OHS. Therefore the aim of this study is to assess whether the OHS is an adequate disability measure from the patient s perspective using qualitative analysis of annotations written on the OHS by patients. Methods In total 276 orthopaedic patients completed an OHS between April 2004 and May 2005. One hundred and fifty six pre-operative patients listed for a THR completed the OHS during a pre-admission assessment clinic and 120 post-operative patients completed the OHS postally in the home setting. Patient s unprompted annotations in .