Measuring patients' views of their health. SF 36 misses the mark.

Measuring health status in older patients. The SF-36 in practice.

OBJECTIVE To examine the use of the Medical Outcomes Study short form 36-item (SF-36) health status measure in older patients receiving health care; to explore the influence of age and physical and cognitive status on response to and completion of the SF-36 questionnaire. DESIGN Prospective observational study. SETTINGS Hospital and ambulatory patients aged 65 years and over in the medical ...

Interpreting the SF-36 Health Survey

One of the most frequently asked questions about health surveys such as the SF-36® is "what do the numbers mean"? Health status scores are abstractions, which obtain meaning through knowledge of how the scores are related to other variables. Although we may not think about it, this is also true for more commonly used measures. For example, a temperature of 0°C is an abstract number, which becom...

Assessing health status with the SF-36.

Measuring Quality of Life After Stroke Using the SF-36

The SF-36 is the most widely used generic instrument for measuring quality of life (QOL). The instrument is translated into numerous languages, and the validity of the 8 subscales is confirmed in general populations and in a wide variety of patient groups in more than 2000 articles. In an article published in this issue of Stroke, Hobart et al1 report the psychometric properties of the SF-36 in...

Measuring quality of life after stroke using the SF-36.

The SF-36 is the most widely used generic instrument for measuring quality of life (QOL). The instrument is translated into numerous languages, and the validity of the 8 subscales is confirmed in general populations and in a wide variety of patient groups in more than 2000 articles. In an article published in this issue of Stroke, Hobart et al1 report the psychometric properties of the SF-36 in...