Scoring the SF-36 in Orthopaedics: A Brief Guide

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.

A Comparative Analysis of the SF-12 and the SF-36 among Ischaemic Heart Disease Patients.

This paper investigated whether the SF-12 could replace the SF-36 in the measurement of health status among ischaemic heart disease patients. The SF-36 and SF-12 were administered to 105 cardiac patients. The SF-36 summary scores were strongly correlated and similar to the SF-12 summary scores. Also, the SF-12 scores were as powerful as the SF-36 summary scores in discriminating between subgrou...

Replicability of SF-36 summary scores by the SF-12 in stroke patients.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The replicability of the physical and mental component summary scores of the Short Form (SF)-36 has been established using the SF-12 in selected patient populations but has yet to be assessed in stroke patients. If the summary scores of the SF-12 are highly correlated with those of the SF-36, the benefits of using a shorter health-status measure may be realized without su...

Factors affecting completion of the SF-36 in older people.

OBJECTIVE to examine the influence of specific clinical impairments and disabilities on the completion of the SF-36 health status measure among older people. DESIGN Prospective observational study. SETTING/PARTICIPANTS An SF-36 was administered to 245 subjects aged 65 years and older. Subjects were chosen by sampling from a variety of inpatient, outpatient and community sources to ensure a ...