The Pediatric Toronto Extremity Salvage Score (pTESS): Validation of a Self-reported Functional Outcomes Tool for Children with Extremity Tumors.

CONCLUSIONS: Both pTESS versions exhibited no floor or ceiling effects and had high internal consistency. The pTESS-Leg demonstrated excellent reliability and validity, and the pTESS-Arm demonstrated good reliability and reasonable validity. The pTESS is recommended for cross-sectional evaluation of self-reported physical function in pediatric patients with bone tumors.
LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Level II, outcome measurement development.
PMID: 31299028 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research - July 3, 2019 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Piscione J, Barden W, Barry J, Malkin A, Roy T, Sueyoshi T, Mazil K, Salomon S, Dandachli F, Griffin A, Saint-Yves H, Giuliano P, Gupta A, Ferguson P, Scheinemann K, Ghert M, Turcotte RE, Lafay-Cousin L, Werier J, Strahlendorf C, Isler M, Mottard S, Afzal Tags: Clin Orthop Relat Res Source Type: research