ABSTRACT

Orthopaedics and orthopaedic trauma are highly complex subjects that can prove difficult to quantify, but accurate measurement is required for setting standards of care and for assessing the severity of an injury. This book will help the reader assess outcome instruments, and provides many references to sources of instruments and techniques to use.

chapter 1|7 pages

Choosing an outcome measure

chapter 3|13 pages

Economic evaluation

chapter 7|7 pages

The measures of pain

chapter 8|11 pages

Trauma severity indices

chapter 11|8 pages

Deformity and cosmesis

chapter 12|14 pages

Growth plate injuries

chapter 15|24 pages

Shoulder and elbow

chapter 16|13 pages

The wrist

chapter 17|28 pages

The hand

chapter 21|38 pages

The knee

chapter 23|12 pages

The foot