Abstract
The recent changes in health care delivery and payment have focused renewed interest on the assessment of functional outcome from the patient's perspective. The development of clinically relevant functional outcome questionnaires for this purpose requires scientific rigor. These tools must be demonstrated to be reliable, valid, and responsive to clinically significant changes in subjects. The steps employed in developing an outcome tool and its characteristics are described.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 76-80 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Current Opinion in Orthopaedics |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1995 |