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The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery 80:766-7 (1998)
© 1998 The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc.

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Jill Dawson, D.Phil., Ray Fitzpatrick, Ph.D., Andrew Carr, F.R.C.S., John C. L'Insalata, M.D., Russell F. Warren, M.D., Steven B. Cohen, B.A., David W. Altchek, M.D. and Margaret G. E. Peterson, Ph.D.

TO THE EDITOR:

"A Self-Administered Questionnaire for Assessment of Symptoms and Function of the Shoulder" (79-A: 738–748, May 1997), by L'Insalata et al., presented an excellent questionnaire for patients who have problems related to the shoulder. Nevertheless, we have a number of concerns.

First, the authors were apparently unaware of other published work on shoulder questionnaires that were also designed for self-completion by patients and that have been subjected to various degrees of statistical evaluation2,3,7.

Second, the patients in each of these previous articles2,3,7 were, on the average, at least fifteen years older than the patients in the study by L'Insalata et al. (average age, forty years). We think that this is important since disorders of the rotator cuff, which are the shoulder conditions of greatest epidemiological importance, tend to affect older people and it is not at all clear that the newer questionnaire is either appropriate or acceptable . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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