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A number of outcome measures are available to assess the impact of sports injuries of the foot and ankle. The following key items are essential when selecting the best available outcome measures:

  • History taking remains the most important tool and is essential to assess the symptoms, concerns, medical-, social-, and psychological history and to individualize treatment.

  • Validity, reliability, and repeatability are important psychometric properties to assess whether an outcome measure is suitable for its intended purpose.

  • Different tools are available to objectify findings during physical examination (goniometers, dynamometers).

  • To obtain an evaluation of the patient which is as complete as possible, it is recommended to combine a generic health measure, a foot- or ankle-specific health measure, and, if available, a disease-specific patient-reported outcome measure (PROM).

  • Monitoring of complications and recurrence rate of the particular injury is essential to adequately assess safety and effectiveness of any surgical technique.

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  1. Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Movement Sciences, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    J. Nienke Altink, Jari Dahmen, Gwendolyn Vuurberg & Gino M. M. J. Kerkhoffs

  2. Academic Center for Evidence Based Sports Medicine (ACES), Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    J. Nienke Altink, Jari Dahmen, Gwendolyn Vuurberg & Gino M. M. J. Kerkhoffs

  3. Amsterdam Collaboration on Health and Safety in Sports (ACHSS), AMC/VUmc IOC Research Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    J. Nienke Altink, Jari Dahmen, Gwendolyn Vuurberg & Gino M. M. J. Kerkhoffs

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  1. Centre of Sports Traumatology Koelliker Hospital, Torino, Italy

    Gian Luigi Canata

  2. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Aspetar Hospital, Doha, Qatar

    Pieter d'Hooghe

  3. Department of Orthopedics, University of Colorado Hospital, Aurora, CO, USA

    Kenneth J. Hunt

  4. Department of Orthopedic Surgery, University of Amsterdam Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam Zuidoost, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands

    Gino M.M.J. Kerkhoffs

  5. Orthopaedics and Traumatology Unit, University Campus Bio medico, Rome, Italy

    Umile Giuseppe Longo

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Altink, J.N., Dahmen, J., Vuurberg, G., Kerkhoffs, G.M.M.J. (2019). Outcome. In: Canata, G., d'Hooghe, P., Hunt, K., Kerkhoffs, G., Longo, U. (eds) Sports Injuries of the Foot and Ankle. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-58704-1_35

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