HEALTH STATUS FOLLOWING RECESSIONAL ULNAR OSTEOTOMY

Hand Surgery ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 05 (01) ◽  
pp. 11-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rina Jain ◽  
Pamela Hudak ◽  
C. Vaughan ◽  
A. Bowen
Keyword(s):  
Health Status ◽  
Health Survey ◽  
Revision Surgery ◽  
Surgical Outcome ◽  
Joint Degeneration ◽  
Plate Removal ◽  
Non Union ◽  
Ulnar Osteotomy ◽  
Sf 36 ◽  
Component Scores

This study describes the health status of 31 patients who underwent recessional ulnar osteotomy for ulnocarpal impingement. An additional lunotriquetral fusion was performed in 11/31 patients for joint degeneration. Outcomes included the DASH (Disability of arm, shoulder and hand) questionnaire, SF-36 Acute Health Survey, complications, and satisfaction with surgical outcome. Patients were stratified into two groups for analysis: osteotomy alone and osteotomy + fusion. The overall results indicated that osteotomy plus fusion in patients with more advanced ulnocarpal impingement did not equalise patients' post-operative health status to that reported by patients requiring osteotomy alone. Mean DASH and SF-36 physical component scores indicated better health status in the osteotomy group compared with the osteotomy + fusion group after surgery. Forty-one point nine per cent of patients required plate removal, and scar pain persisted in 58%. One patient in each group developed a non-union requiring revision surgery. Patients in both groups were generally satisfied with their surgical result, with a higher proportion of very or completely satisfied patients in the osteotomy group (65%) compared to the osteotomy + fusion group (27%). Overall, recessional ulnar osteotomy appears to be a successful procedure for the treatment of ulnocarpal impingement.

Development and Testing of the UK SF-12

1997 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Crispin Jenkinson ◽  
Richard Layte
Keyword(s):  
Health Status ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Community Sample ◽  
Mental Component Summary Score ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Summary Score ◽  
Sf 36 ◽  
Patient Groups ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Component Scores

Objectives: The 36 item short form health survey (SF-36) has proved to be of use in a variety of settings where a short generic health measure of patient-assessed outcome is required. This measure can provide an eight dimension profile of health status, and two summary scores assessing physical function and mental well-being. The developers of the SF-36 in America have developed algorithms to yield the two summary component scores in a questionnaire containing only one-third of the original 36 items, the SF-12. This paper documents the construction of the UK SF-12 summary measures from a large-scale dataset from the UK in which the SF-36, together with other questions on health and lifestyles, was sent to randomly selected members of the population. Using these data we attempt here to replicate the findings of the SF-36 developers in the UK setting, and then to assess the use of SF-12 summary scores in a variety of clinical conditions. Methods: Factor analytical methods were used to derive the weights used to construct the physical and mental component scales from the SF-36. Regression methods were used to weight the 12 items recommended by the developers to construct the SF-12 physical and mental component scores. This analysis was undertaken on a large community sample ( n = 9332), and then the results of the SF-36 and SF-12 were compared across diverse patient groups (Parkinson's disease, congestive heart failure, sleep apnoea, benign prostatic hypertrophy). Results: Factor analysis of the SF-36 produced a two factor solution. The factor loadings were used to weight the physical component summary score (PCS-36) and mental component summary score (MCS-36). Results gained from the use of these measures were compared with results gained from the PCS-12 and MCS-12, and were found to be highly correlated (PCS: ρ = 0.94, p < 0.001; MCS: ρ = 0.96, p < 0.001), and produce remarkably similar results, both in the community sample and across a variety of patient groups. Conclusions: The SF-12 is able to produce the two summary scales originally developed from the SF-36 with considerable accuracy and yet with far less respondent burden. Consequently, the SF-12 may be an instrument of choice where a short generic measure providing summary information on physical and mental health status is required. Crispin Jenkinson DPhil, Deputy Director

scholarly journals The SF 36 health survey questionnaire. A valid measure of health status...

BMJ ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 307 (6901) ◽  
pp. 448-449 ◽  
Author(s):  
D Ruta ◽  
A Garratt ◽  
M Abdalla ◽  
K Buckingham ◽  
I Russell
Keyword(s):  
Health Status ◽  
Health Survey ◽  
Survey Questionnaire ◽  
Valid Measure ◽  
Sf 36

Measuring the health status burden in hemodialysis patients using the SF-36® health survey

2010 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 383-389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron S. Yarlas ◽  
Michelle K. White ◽  
Min Yang ◽  
Renee N. Saris-Baglama ◽  
Peter Galthen Bech ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Status ◽  
Health Survey ◽  
Hemodialysis Patients ◽  
Sf 36

COMPARISON OF HEALTH STATUS AS ASSESSED BY SF-36 HEALTH SURVEY (SF36) FOR ELDERLY PARTICIPANTS AND YOUNGER PARTICIPANTS IN A CARDIAC REHABILITATION (CR) PROGRAM.

2005 ◽  
Vol 25 (5) ◽  
pp. 295
Author(s):  
Michelle La Londe ◽  
Sophia Boudoulas Meis ◽  
Richard Snow ◽  
Lisa Hindman ◽  
Shauna Miller ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Status ◽  
Cardiac Rehabilitation ◽  
Health Survey ◽  
Sf 36

Health status in patients with disturbed sleep and obstructive sleep apnea

2000 ◽  
Vol 122 (4) ◽  
pp. 542-546
Author(s):  
Richard E. Gliklich ◽  
Farhan Taghizadeh ◽  
John W. Winkelman
Keyword(s):  
Health Status ◽  
Sleep Quality ◽  
Health Survey ◽  
Quality Index ◽  
Sleep Disturbances ◽  
Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index ◽  
Obstructive Sleep ◽  
Sf 36 ◽  
Status Assessment ◽  
Health Status Measures

The health status of 435 consecutive patients with sleep disturbances necessitating polysomnography was investigated. Patients underwent overnight polysomnography and health status assessment, including the Medical Outcomes Study SF-36 Health Survey and the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index. Based on a respiratory distress index (RDI) greater than 10 to define apnea, patients with apnea were significantly ( P < 0.05) more likely to be male, be older, and have higher body mass index and lower oxygen saturation levels than patients without apnea. Multiple domains of the SF-36 Health Survey and the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index were significantly worse ( P < 0.05) for this population when normative data were compared. Although few differences were observed between the apneic and nonapneic patients when a cutoff point for apnea was defined as an RDI greater than 10 or 20, increasing RDI was significantly associated with worsening physical functioning scores. Overall, decrements in health status measures were more strongly correlated with the number of oxygen desaturations below 85% than with increasing RDI. We conclude that patients with sleep disturbances demonstrate significant decrements in general and sleep-specific health status, but these decrements are more closely associated with oxygen desaturation than RDI.

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