CLINICAL OUTCOMES

This section provides you with a selection of clinical outcome measures that are commonly used in articular cartilage repair procedures and rehabilitation.

Orthopaedic Score.com is a free information and calculation service presenting various orthopaedic outcome measures. It has been designed for orthopaedic surgeons, physicians, physical therapists, osteopaths, chiropractors, lawyers and patients.

http://www.orthopaedicscore.com/

Knee injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score (KOOS). KOOS is developed as an instrument to assess the patients opinion about their knee and associated problems. KOOS is intended to be used for knee injury that can result in post traumatic osteoarthritis (OA); i.e. ACL (anterior cruciate ligament) injury, meniscus injury, chondral injury, etc. KOOS consists of 5 subscales; Pain, other Symptoms, Function in daily living (ADL), Function in sport and recreation (Sport/Rec) and knee related Quality of life QOL. Forms in several languages available for free download.

http://www.koos.nu/

SF-36. The SF-36 is a multi-purpose, short-form health survey with only 36 questions. It yields an 8-scale profile of functional health and well-being scores as well as psychometrically-based physical and mental health summary measures and a preference-based health utility index. It is a generic measure, as opposed to one that targets a specific age, disease, or treatment group. Accordingly, the SF-36 has proven useful in surveys of general and specific populations, comparing the relative burden of diseases, and in differentiating the health benefits produced by a wide range of different treatments. License required.

http://www.sf-36.org/

International Knee Documentation Committee (IKDC). The IKDC includes a demographic form, current health assessment form, subjective knee evaluation form, knee history form, surgical documentation form and knee examination form. To facilitate scoring the IKDC subjective form, AOSSM has developed a spreadsheet that will yield a patient's raw score and percentile score (relative to age- and gender-based norms). The form and scoring spreadsheet are available for free download.

http://www.sportsmed.org/research/IKDC.asp

SOCRATES - Standardised Orthopaedic & Cartilage Repair and Treatment Evaluation Software. The objective of SOCRATES is to develop a global standardised computerised database to enable assessment of and measure outcomes in patients who have undergone surgical procedures to the joint with particular emphasis on cartilage repair procedures. More information available online.

http://www.cartilage.org/index.php?pid=59&SID=647d9c62018338397188ebb3f572eec4