Time Trade-Off as a Measure of Health-Related Quality of Life: Long Bone Nonunions Have a Devastating Impact

Conclusions: Patients diagnosed with a long bone nonunion have a very low health-related quality of life. We found that this single cohort’s mean utility score was 0.68. This result is well below that of illnesses such as type-I diabetes mellitus (0.88), stroke (0.81), and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (0.79). We found that patients with forearm nonunions had the lowest utility scores. Level of Evidence: Prognostic Level III. See Instructions for Authors for a complete description of levels of evidence.
Source: The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Tags: Trauma Scientific Articles Source Type: research