Jens R Chapman
Beate P Hanson
Joseph R Dettori
Daniel C Norvell

AOSpine Outcomes Measures and Instruments

Outcomes instruments that attempt to assess the function and quality of life in patients suffering from various spine conditions are on the increase. This book sets out to evaluate and summarize over 100 outcomes instruments for the spine and its associated diseases.

The following questions were the impetus behind the development of this book:

• What outcomes are important to patients and clinicians?
• Which questions are used to build a specifi c outcomes instrument?
• How is a specific instrument scored?
• Is it completed by the clinician or the patient?
• Has the instrument undergone validity or reliability testing?
• In what population was it validated, and how did it perform?

Outcomes instruments from the following “core” domains are summarized and evaluated in this book:

• Function specific to the lumbar and cervical spines aswell as specific diseases such as osteoporosis,
  spinal deformity, spinal stenosis, and neurological injuries
• Pain
• Disability (physical)
• Disability (psychosocial)
• Patient satisfaction

Spine Outcomes Measures and Instruments is an invaluable tool for spine surgeons, neurosurgeons, and orthopedic
surgeons who see spine conditions, physiatrists, family practice physicians, rheumatologists, musculoskeletal
pain specialists, nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists, and any other health professional that
may encounter these outcomes instruments.

Published 2007
289 pages

The americas
ISBN 987-1-60406-000-3 (TPN)

Rest of World
ISBN 978-3-13-147981-5 (TPS)

€ 129.99