The increasing shift towards patient-centred healthcare has lead to an emergence of patient-reported outcome instruments to quantify functional outcomes in orthopaedic patients.
Another list of standards has been compiled by Bombardier and Tugwell, who developed a checklist to compare and evaluate the usefulness of instruments to measure functional status [ 4].
A systematic review concluded the FAAM and its predecessor were the most appropriate evaluative instruments to quantify functional disabilities in individuals with chronic ankle instability[ 17].
For this purpose, the researchers chose to apply a survey conveying questions on demographic aspects, general health, eating and feeding, as well as instruments to assess functional performance and the 3 ounce Water Swallow Test.
The initial visit, 6-month visit, and 12-month visit will use instruments to measure functional status, quality of life, cognition, mood, self-reported outcomes, attitudes, behaviors, and compliance.
We consider further research is necessary in order to address the importance of clinical record as a valid instrument to transfer functional information through different doctors, therefore reducing the inaccuracy of functional knowledge we have found in the ED setting.
The use of relatively simple instruments to assess the functional status of the older in emergency departments would therefore appear reasonable [ 32].
In both cohorts, we successfully applied a multi-dimensional set of instruments to assess multimorbidity, functional disability in daily life, autonomy, quality of life (QoL), health care services utilization, personal and social resources as well as socio-demographic and biographical context variables.
The Frenchay Activities Index is a stroke specific instrument to assess functional status.
The WOMAC will be used as a disease-specific outcome instrument to measure functional status.
