HSS journal : the musculoskeletal journal of Hospital for Special Surgery
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Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) are an important resource for clinicians wishing to provide high-quality, patient-centered care. Finding PROMs to use in a pediatric clinical practice that are reliable, age appropriate, succinct, and not redundant is challenging. ⋯ The study shows that although both PROM instruments provide valuable information about pediatric physical function, they are not redundant because they measure slightly different constructs. Future studies should further investigate the correlation between these questionnaires in specific subpopulations of pediatric patients with lower-extremity pathology.
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Development and validation of Veterans RAND 12-item (VR-12) physical component survey (PCS) has been established among civilian and veteran populations but it has not been examined among anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) patients. ⋯ VR-12 PCS was strongly correlated with the well-validated SF-12 PCS and NDI metrics as well as with the more recent PROMIS-PF. All PROMs demonstrated statistically significant improvement in patients post-operatively. VR-12 PCS is a valid measure of physical function among patients undergoing ACDF.