Symptoms, disability, and quality of life in patients with carpal tunnel syndrome
Symptoms, disability, and quality of life in patients with carpal tunnel syndrome
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DOI:
10.1053/jhsu.1999.0398
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发表时间:
1999-03-01
影响因子:
1.9
通讯作者:
Sprinchorn, A
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作者:
Atroshi, I;Gummesson, C;Sprinchorn, A
We used validated outcome instruments to measure symptoms, disability, and health-related quality of life in 58 patients with carpel tunnel syndrome (CTS). The patients completed the CTS instrument before and 6 weeks, 3 months, and 6 months after surgery and the Short Form-36 (SF-36) before and 3 months after surgery. The size of clinical change detected by each outcome measure was estimated by the standardized response mean (mean change/ standard deviation of the change). Large improvement was observed for the CTS symptom scale (mean standardized response, 1.4-1.9) and function scale (0.8-1.1). Improvement in SF-36 scares was large for pain (1.0) and moderate for physical role, mental health, and the physical component summary (0.5-0.6). Compared with the general population SF-36 norms (n = 2,181), CTS patients had significantly worse scores for physical functioning, physical role, pain, vitality, and the physical component summary before surgery. After surgery, SF-36 scores had normalized except for physical role and the physical component summary. Copyright (C) 1999 by the American Society for Surgery of the Hand.