title: The Patient Outcomes of Surgery-Hand/Arm (POS-Hand/Arm): a new patient-based outcome measure.
abstract: The purpose of this study was to develop and validate a new patient-based outcome measure for hand/arm disorders for use in audit, clinical trials and effectiveness studies. There were three stages. First, we carried out interviews with 40 patients with hand/arm disorders to develop and pilot questionnaire content. Second, in a postal survey with 165 pre- and 181 post-surgery patients, we reduced the number of items and identified scales. Third, in a postal survey with 132 pre- and 204 post-surgery patients we evaluated the psychometric properties of the measure. Findings confirmed the acceptability, reliability, validity and responsiveness to clinical change of the questionnaire. The Patient Outcomes of Surgery-Hand/Arm (POS-Hand/Arm) is a new surgical outcome measure that can be used before and after surgery (29 and 33 items, respectively) to evaluate and compare new techniques, surgical teams and units.
authors.affiliation: Health Services Research Unit, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK. scano@rfc.ucl.ac.uk
authors.forename: S J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Cano
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Browne
authors.forename: D L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Lamping
authors.forename: A H N
authors.initials: AH
authors.lastname: Roberts
authors.forename: D A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: McGrouther
authors.forename: N A
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: Black
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001132:Arm / Q000601:surgery*; D004954:Esthetics; D005260:Female; D006225:Hand / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D006113:United Kingdom