Under CMS’s OPPS, outpatient orthopedic facilities must report PROs for THA/TKA by 2028 or face a 2% APU reduction. Learn why HOPDs and ASCs should take advantage of the current voluntary period to avoid penalties, improve outcomes, and gain a competitive edge.

Explore the 3-Item Care Transition Measure (CTM-3)—a brief but effective patient-reported tool designed to evaluate discharge readiness and care transitions. Once a CMS-required HCAHPS measure, CTM-3 remains a valuable benchmark in patient experience.

Learn about the PIX Survey structure, CMS reporting deadlines, patient experience domains, and best practices for compliance with inpatient psychiatric facility quality measures.

The quick, 3-question nature of the CollaboRATE tool makes implementation into clinical practice easy for both patients and clinical staff.

As a measure of general health, the SF-12 can be utilized for any orthopedic condition or following any orthopedic intervention.

The broad scope of the questions and well-established psychometric properties make TESS an ideal for research, however its length may limit its capture rate if used for daily clinical practice.

The Pedi-IKDC form is a modification of the original IKDC, tailored specifically for patients ages 10 to 18. By adapting question wording and splitting select items for better comprehension, the 21-item Pedi-IKDC delivers reliable, valid, and responsive assessments of knee injuries, diseases, and procedures.

The Pediatric and Adolescent ASES (Pedi-ASES) Score is a modified version of the adult ASES survey, carefully adapted to evaluate shoulder and elbow issues in patients aged 10–18.

PSI is a new e-PROM that demonstrates significant promise in simplifying the collection of patient-perceived health across body systems in the telehealth setting while displaying early acceptable validity. Future studies should be performed to solidify its clinical relevance in holistic medicine.

As one of the most commonly utilized PROs for ankle fracture recovery, the OMAS is a quick tool to monitor patients in the vital post-injury recovery period. However, other surveys should be considered if looking for a well-validated PROM for research purposes.

Discover how the Majeed Pelvic Score evaluates pelvic fracture outcomes, measuring everything from pain and work ability to sexual function and sitting tolerance. Learn how this proven tool empowers clinicians to tailor treatments, boost patient satisfaction, and enhance overall care.

The Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire (KCCQ) is a validated tool that captures essential data on heart failure symptoms, functional limitations, and quality of life. By leveraging KCCQ’s insights, healthcare teams can tailor treatments and enhance patient-centered care.

PROMIS Global Health Overview The PROMIS Global Health is an overall evaluation of an adult (ages 18+) patient’s physical and mental health. The measure is generic rather than disease-specific and looks at a patient’s general health. There is only a fixed-length version consisting of 10 questions and is available at healthmeasures.net. All versions of the PROMIS Global Health produces a Global Physical Health (GPH) and Global Mental Health (GMH) scoring component. There is not an overall PROMIS Global Health score. PROMIS also has shorter measures that will provide the GPH and GMH scores: Global Mental 2a and Global Physical 2a.…

The Knee injury and Osteoarthritis Outcomes Score – Anterior Cruciate Ligament (KOOS-ACL) is an abbreviated version of the KOOS designed specifically to evaluate young, active patients with ACL deficiency.  The creators of KOOS-ACL wanted to mitigate the weaknesses of the more general KOOS in this specific patient population and develop a shorter, less burdensome tool.  At a short twelve (12) questions, this questionnaire takes less than five (5) minutes to complete, reducing the time required for patients to complete it by 2/3 compared to the initial 42-question KOOS. The KOOS-ACL focuses on two (2) primary subscales of KOOS – function…

What is the Tegner Activity Scale? The Tegner Activity Scale (TAS) is a self-administered patient-reported measure that describes the level of work- and sports-based activity in which a patient can engage. It was developed by Dr. Yelverton Tegner and Dr. Jack Lysholm in Sweden and first described in 1985 (1). Rather than a stand-alone test, the TAS was designed with the purpose of complementing the Lysholm score (2) used to measure outcomes of knee ligament surgery (3). Structure and Scoring The TAS is a one-item questionnaire that is scored on an 11-item scale (0 to 10) based on the patient’s…