Use of Patient-reported Outcome Measures in Pediatric Orthopaedic Literature

Conclusions: Patient-reported outcome measures are underutilized in the pediatric orthopaedic literature. Instruments are frequently used that are neither designed nor validated for a pediatric population. Consequently, further work is necessary to develop, validate, and implement pediatric-specific FHS and HRQoL tools to fully understand the impact of a clinical intervention on all aspects of patient quality of life.
Source: Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics - Category: Orthopaedics Tags: Patient Evaluation Source Type: research