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Symptoms, disability, and quality of life in patients with carpal tunnel syndrome

Atroshi, Isam LU ; Gummesson, Christina LU ; Johnsson, Ragnar LU and Sprinchorn, A (1999) In The Journal of Hand Surgery 24(2). p.398-404
Abstract
We used validated outcome instruments to measure symptoms, disability, and health-related quality of life in 58 patients with carpal 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 scales was large for pain (1.0) and moderate for physical role, mental health, and the physical component summary (0.5-0.6).... (More)
We used validated outcome instruments to measure symptoms, disability, and health-related quality of life in 58 patients with carpal 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 scales 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. (Less)
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Measurement scale, Evaluation, Carpal tunnel syndrome, Quality of life, Symptomatology, Prognosis, Preoperative, Postoperative, Disability, Methodology, Human, Compression, Nervous system diseases, Peripheral nerve disease, Diseases of the osteoarticular system
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The Journal of Hand Surgery
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24
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398 - 404
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Elsevier
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1531-6564
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English
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The information about affiliations in this record was updated in December 2015. The record was previously connected to the following departments: Division of Physiotherapy (Closed 2012) (013042000), Department of Orthopaedics (Lund) (013028000)
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  abstract     = {{We used validated outcome instruments to measure symptoms, disability, and health-related quality of life in 58 patients with carpal 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 scales 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.}},
  author       = {{Atroshi, Isam and Gummesson, Christina and Johnsson, Ragnar and Sprinchorn, A}},
  issn         = {{1531-6564}},
  keywords     = {{Measurement scale; Evaluation; Carpal tunnel syndrome; Quality of life; Symptomatology; Prognosis; Preoperative; Postoperative; Disability; Methodology; Human; Compression; Nervous system diseases; Peripheral nerve disease; Diseases of the osteoarticular system}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{2}},
  pages        = {{398--404}},
  publisher    = {{Elsevier}},
  series       = {{The Journal of Hand Surgery}},
  title        = {{Symptoms, disability, and quality of life in patients with carpal tunnel syndrome}},
  volume       = {{24}},
  year         = {{1999}},
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