What is it about?
We review the origin and history of an important quality of life measure, the SF36. We then explain how the SF36 scoring process may unfairly assess patients with orthopedic diseases.
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Why is it important?
Our article is interesting to outcomes reasearchers, and people who use the Sf-36. In particular, we link to a copyright free version which can be used in studies and scored automatically.
Perspectives
The SF-36 is part of the fabric of orthopaedic research. Sometimes the details are relevant, and we show how an quirk of the SF-36 scoring may be important to orthopedic surgeons.
Dr Timothy Bhattacharyya
National Institutes of Health
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This page is a summary of: Scoring the SF-36 in Orthopaedics: A Brief Guide, Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, October 2015, The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc.,
DOI: 10.2106/jbjs.o.00030.
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