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The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery British Volume
Vol. 90-B, Issue 5 | Pages 545 - 549
1 May 2008
Ashby E Grocott MPW Haddad FS

Orthopaedic outcome measures are used to evaluate the effect of operative interventions. They are used for audit and research. Knowledge of these measures is becoming increasingly important with league tables comparing surgeons and hospitals being made accessible to the profession and the general public.

Several types of tool are available to describe outcome after hip surgery such as generic quality-of-life questionnaires, disease-specific quality-of-life questionnaires, hip-specific outcome measures and general short-term clinical measures. We provide an overview of the outcome measures commonly used to evaluate hip interventions.


The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery British Volume
Vol. 87-B, Issue 9 | Pages 1171 - 1177
1 Sep 2005
Trieb K