Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery
Volume 17, Issue 6 , Pages 886-892 , November 2008

Comparison of two patient-based outcome measures for shoulder instability after nonoperative treatment

  • Jane S. Moser, MSc

      Affiliations

    • Physiotherapy Department, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre NHS Trust, Oxford, United Kingdom
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Jane Moser, Physiotherapy Department, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre NHS Trust, Oxford OX3 7LD, UK.
    • ,
  • Karen L. Barker, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Physiotherapy Department, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre NHS Trust, Oxford, United Kingdom
    • ,
  • Helen A. Doll, DPhil

      Affiliations

    • Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
    • ,
  • Andrew J. Carr, ChM

      Affiliations

    • Nuffield Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre NHS Trust, Oxford, United Kingdom

References 

  1. Angst F, Aeschlimann A, Stucki G. Smallest detectable and minimal clinically important differences of rehabilitation intervention with their implications for required sample sizes using WOMAC and SF-36 quality of life measurement instruments in patients with osteoarthritis of the lower extremities. Arthritis Rheum. 2001;45:384–391
  2. Beaton D, Richards RR. Assessing the reliability and responsiveness of 5 shoulder questionnaires. J Shoulder Elbow Surg. 1998;7:565–572
  3. Beaton DE. Understanding the relevance of measured change through studies of responsiveness. Spine. 2000;25:3192–3199
  4. Beaton DE, Tarasuk V, Katz JN, Wright JG, Bombardier C. “Are you better?” A qualitative study of the meaning of recovery. Arthritis Rheum. 2001;45:270–279
  5. Burkhead WZ, Rockwood CA. Treatment of instability of the shoulder with an exercise program. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 1992;74:890–896
  6. Campbell MJ, Julious SA, Altman DG. Estimating sample sizes for binary, ordered categorical, and continuous outcomes in two group comparisons. BMJ. 1995;311:1145–1148
  7. Cohen J. Statistical power analysis for the behavioural sciences. New York, NY: Academic Press; 1997;
  8. Dawson J, Fitzpatrick R, Carr A. The assessment of shoulder instability. The development and validation of a questionnaire. J Bone Joint Surg Br. 1999;81:420–426
  9. Deyo RA, Centor RM. Assessing the responsiveness of functional scales to clinical change: an analogy to diagnostic test performance. J Chronic Dis. 1986;39:897–906
  10. Edwards P, Roberts I, Clarke M, DiGuiseppi C, Pratap S, Wentz R, et al. Increasing response rates to postal questionnaires:systemic review. BMJ. 2002;324:1183–1191
  11. Fritz JM, Irrgang JJ. A comparison of a modified Oswestry Low Back Pain Disability Questionnaire and the Quebec Back Pain Disability Scale. Phys Ther. 2001;81:776–788
  12. Garratt A, Schmidt L, Mackintosh A, Fitzpatrick R. Quality of life measurement: bibliographic study of patient assessed health outcome measures. BMJ. 2002;324:1417–1421
  13. Gibson K, Growse A, Korda L, Wray E, MacDermid JC. The effectiveness of rehabilitation for nonoperative management of shoulder instability: a systematic review. J Hand Ther. 2004;17:229–242
  14. Goldsmith CH, Boers M, Bombardier C, Tugwell P. Criteria for clinically important changes in outcomes: development, scoring and evaluation of rheumatoid arthritis patient and trial profiles. OMERACT Committee. J Rheumatol. 1993;20:561–565
  15. Guyatt G, Walter S, Norman G. Measuring change over time: assessing the usefulness of evaluative instruments. J Chronic Dis. 1987;40:171–178
  16. Handoll HHG, Almaiyah MA, Rangan A. Surgical versus non-surgical treatment for acute anterior shoulder dislocation. The Cochrane Database of Systemic Reviews. 2004;
  17. Hanley JA, McNeil BJ. A method of comparing the areas under receiver operating characteristic curves derived from the same cases. Radiology. 1983;148:839–843
  18. Jaeschke R, Singer J, Guyatt GH. Measurement of health status. Ascertaining the minimal clinically important difference. Control Clin Trials. 1989;10:407–415
  19. Kazis LE, Anderson JJ, Meenan MD. Effect sizes for intepreting changes in health status. Medical Care. 1989;27:178–189
  20. Kirkley A, Griffin S, Dainty K. Scoring systems for the functional assessment of the shoulder. Arthroscopy. 2003;19:1109–1120
  21. Kirkley A, Griffin S, Richards C, Miniaci A, Mohtadi N. Prospective randomized clinical trial comparing the effectiveness of immediate arthroscopic stabilization versus immobilization and rehabilitation in first traumatic anterior dislocations of the shoulder. Arthroscopy. 1999;15:507–514
  22. L'Insalata JC, Warren RF, Cohen SB, Altchek DW, Peterson MG. A self-administered questionnaire for assessment of symptoms and function of the shoulder. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 1997;79:738–748
  23. Lewis A, Kitmura T, Bayley JIL. The classification of shoulder instability: New light through old windows!. Curr Orthopaedics. 2004;18:97–108
  24. Liang MH. Evaluating measurement responsiveness. J Rheumatol. 1995;6:1191–1192
  25. Loughead JM, Williams JR. Outcome following Bankhart repair for shoulder instability 1998-2002 using a subjective patient based shouder questionnaire (Oxford). Injury. 2005;36:539–543
  26. McHorney CA, Tarlov AR. Individual-patient monitoring in clinical practice: are available health status surveys adequate?. Quality Life Res. 1995;4:293–307
  27. Michener LA, Leggin BG. A review of self-report scales for the assessment of functional limitation and disability of the shoulder. J Hand Therapy. 2001;14:68–76
  28. Moseley JB, Jobe FW, Pink M, Perry J, Tibone J. EMG analysis of the scapular muscles during a shoulder rehabilitation program. Am J Sports Med. 1992;20:128–134
  29. Norman GR. Issues in the use of change scores in randomised trials. J Clin Epidemiol. 1989;42:1097–1105
  30. Norman GR, Stratford P, Regehr G. Methodological problems in the retrospective computation of responsiveness to change: the lesson of Cronbach. J Clin Epidemiol. 1997;50:869–879
  31. Riddle DL, Stratford PW, Binkley JM. Sensitivity to change of the Roland-Morris Back Pain Questionnaire: part 2. Phys Ther. 1998;78:1197–1207
  32. Sahrmann SA. Diagnosis and Treatment of Movement Impairment Syndromes. St. Louis, MO: Mosby; 2002;
  33. Stratford PW, Binkley FM, Riddle DL. Health status measures: strategies and analytic methods for assessing change scores. Phys Ther. 1996;76:1109–1123
  34. Stratford PW, Binkley J, Solomon P, Finch E, Gill C, Moreland J. Defining the minimum level of detectable change for the Roland-Morris questionnaire. Phys Ther. 1996;76:359–365
  35. Stratford PW, Binkley JM, Riddle DL, Guyatt GH. Sensitivity to change of the Roland-Morris Back Pain Questionnaire: part 1. Phys Ther. 1998;78:1186–1196
  36. Stratford PW, Riddle DL. Assessing sensitivity to change: choosing the appropriate change coefficient. Health Quality Life Outcomes. 2005;3:23–29
  37. Streiner DL, Norman GR. Health measurement scales. A practical guide to their development and use. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press; 1989;
  38. Takwale VJ, Calvert P, Rattue H. Involuntary positional instability of the shoulder in adolescents and young adults. Is there any benefit from treatment?. J Bone Joint Surg Br. 2000;82:719–723
  39. Watson L, Story I, Dalziel R, Hoy G, Shimmin A, Woods D. A new clinical outcome measure of glenohumeral joint instability: the MISS questionnaire. J Shoulder Elbow Surg. 2005;14:22–30
  40. Wells G, Beaton D, Shea B, Boers M, Simon L, Strand V, et al. Minimal clinically important differences: review of methods. J Rheumatol. 2001;28:406–412
  41. Whitley E, Ball J. Statistics review 4: sample size calculations. Crit Care. 2002;6:335–341
  42. Wilk KE, Meister K, Andrews JR. Current concepts in the rehabilitation of the overhead throwing athlete. Am J Sports Med. 2002;30:136–151
  43. Wright J, Cross J, Lamb S. Physiotherapy outcome measures for rehabilitation of elderly people. Responsiveness to change of the Rivermead Mobility Index and Barthel Index. Physiotherapy. 1998;84:216–221
  44. Wyrwich KW. Minimal important difference thresholds and the standard error of measurement: is there a connection?. J Biopharm Stat. 2004;14:97–110

PII: S1058-2746(08)00438-2

doi: 10.1016/j.jse.2008.05.040

Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery
Volume 17, Issue 6 , Pages 886-892 , November 2008

Article Tools

* Image Usage & Resolution