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The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery British Volume
Vol. 78-B, Issue 1 | Pages 119 - 123
1 Jan 1996
Hildebrand KA Buckley RE Mohtadi NGH Faris P

We have devised a new scoring system using visual analogue scales (VAS) to determine the functional outcome in 15 patients with 20 displaced intra-articular calcaneal fractures, confirmed by CT. The average follow-up was 19 months.

A VAS was completed separately by the patient, the surgeon and an independent assessor. It showed satisfactory agreement between observers and strong correlations with a General Health Survey (SF36), a pain scale (McGill Pain Questionnaire) and a disease-specific, historical scale for calcaneal fractures (the Rowe score).