title: [Patient-centered evaluation of the illness sequelae of musculoskeletal diseases: overview of important outcome instruments].
abstract: Quality of life and patient-centered health status has received increasing attention during the last decade. Simultaneously, there have been multiple instruments to assess quality of life in a standardized way. There are several possible approaches to assess health status in a more standardized way: (1) the judgement of a health professional, (2) performing standardized activities by the patient, and (3) self report of patients with standardized questionnaires. This paper presents a selection of health status instruments that have been used successfully to assess health-related quality of life in patients with musculoskeletal diseases. The description is restricted to instruments that have sound psychometric properties and that have been published in the scientific literature.
authors.affiliation: Brigham and Womens Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Sangha
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Stucki
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living / Q000145:classification / Q000523:psychology*; D004185:Disability Evaluation; D006801:Humans; D009140:Musculoskeletal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011594:Psychometrics; D011788:Quality of Life; D015203:Reproducibility of Results
vernacular_title: Patienten-zentrierte Evaluation der Krankheitsauswirkungen bei muskuloskelettalen Erkrankungen: Ubersicht über die wichtigsten Outcome-Instrumente.