• Umile Giuseppe Longo, Mauro Ciuffreda, Vincenzo Candela, Alessandra Berton, Nicola Maffulli, and Vincenzo Denaro.
• Department of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, Campus Bio-Medico University, Via Alvaro del Portillo, 200, 00128 Trigoria, Rome, Italy.
• Br. Med. Bull. 2019 Sep 19; 131 (1): 81-96.

IntroductionDuring the past decades, several rating scales have been developed to assess the functional status of patients with hip pain.Source Of DataA search in Medline, PubMed, Cochrane and CINAHL was performedusing combinations of the following'hip', 'scoring system', 'scale', 'scores', 'outcome assessment', 'arthroplasty', 'arthroscopy' and 'clinical evaluation'.Areas Of AgreementA total 16 scoring systems are currently available for the evaluation of the hip.Areas Of ControversyTwo types of questionnaires are available: physician-rated and patient-rated questionnaires.Growing PointsEach hip score consists of different domains. Interpreting these domains becomes sometimes difficult, because, even though they can be common to more than one scoring system, each stresses them in a different way.Areas Timely For Developing ResearchAlthough many scoring systems have been used to evaluate hip function, we are still far from a single outcome evaluation system which is reliable, valid and sensitive.© The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oup.com.

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