Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành hóa học dành cho các bạn yêu hóa học tham khảo đề tài:The Dutch version of the knee injury and osteoarthritis outcome score: A validation study | BioMed Central Health and Quality of Life Outcomes Research Open Access The Dutch version of the knee injury and osteoarthritis outcome score A validation study Ingrid B de Groot 1 Marein M Favejee1 Max Reijman1 Jan AN Verhaar1 and Caroline B Terwee2 Address Department of Orthopaedics Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam The Netherlands and 2EMGO Institute VU University Medical Center Amsterdam The Netherlands Email Ingrid B de Groot - Marein M Favejee - Max Reijman - Jan AN Verhaar - Caroline B Terwee - Corresponding author Published 26 February 2008 Received 2 August 2007 Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2008 6 16 doi 86 1477-7525-6-16 Accepted 26 February 2008 This article is available from http content 6 1 16 2008 de Groot et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background The Knee Injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score KOOS was constructed in Sweden. This questionnaire has proved to be valid for several orthopedic interventions of the knee. It has been formally translated and validated in several languages but not yet in Dutch. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the clinimetric properties of the Dutch version of the KOOS questionnaire in knee patients with various stages of osteoarthritis OA . Methods The Swedish version of the KOOS questionnaire was first translated into Dutch according to a standardized procedure and second tested for clinimetric quality. The study population consisted of patients with different stages of OA mild moderate and severe and of patients after primary TKA and after a revision of the TKA. All patients filled in the
