HSS Develops New, Short PROM Survey

Orthopedics This Week—May 4, 2015

Orthopedics This Week reports that Stephen Lyman, PhD, Yuo-Yo Lee, MS, and Douglas Padgett, MD, of Hospital for Special Surgery in New York set out to improve upon existing surveys of Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) as related to total hip arthroplasty (THA).

According to the authors, the survey demonstrated high internal consistency, moderate to near perfect external validity against other validated hip surveys, very high responsiveness, and favorable floor and ceiling effects.

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