What Is the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Quality of Life and Other Patient-reported Outcomes? An Analysis of the Hand-Wrist Study Cohort.

CONCLUSIONS: The COVID-19 pandemic and its associated lockdown had no influence on QoL and had little influence on secondary outcomes in participants who were part of the Hand-Wrist Study Cohort. This finding implies that PROMs data collected during this period can be used with confidence in clinical research. Our findings indicate that when a pandemic like this occurs again, we can continue to use PROMs for analysis in clinical research or routine outcome measures.
LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Level III, therapeutic study.
PMID: 33044314 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research - October 12, 2020 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Cohen A, Selles RW, De Ridder WA, Ter Stege MHP, Souer JS, Wouters RM, Hand–Wrist Study Group Collaborators Tags: Clin Orthop Relat Res Source Type: research