Forgotten Joint Score - 12 - Hip flow

Introduction

The FJS Hip was designed to assess patient outcome in patients undergoing conservative or operative treatment of the hip. This questionnaire shows its strengths in patients with a good level of hip function and a low pain level. It has been designed specifically to reduce ceiling effects commonly associated with many PRO measures in this patient group, e.g. when assessing short- to mid-term results in total hip arthroplasty patients.[1]

The Forgotten Joint Score - 12 - Hip flow contains the Forgotten Joint Score – 12 (FJS-12) - Hip questionnaire and associated calculation. After form submission, the Forgotten Joint Score - 12 - Hip calculation is executed automatically. It's easy to extend this flow with conditional logic based on the interpretation of the Forgotten Joint Score - 12 - Hip calculation.

Forgotten Joint Score – 12 (FJS-12) - Hip questionnaire

Questions and Scoring

Every question is scored 1 (never) to 5 (mostly) according to the selected response categories. Thus, the raw score ranges from 12 to 60. The raw score is linearly transformed to a 0-100 scale and then reversed to obtain the final score.

Link to Dutch version of the questionnaire.

Interpretation

The total score ranges from 0 to 100; a high score indicates good outcome.

References

[1] Joint awareness after unicompartmental knee arthroplasty and total knee arthroplasty: a systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies. Tripathy SK, Varghese P, Srinivasan A, Goyal T, Purudappa PP, Sen RK, Chandrappa MH. Knee Surg Sports Traumatol Arthrosc. 2020 Oct 19.
[2] Evaluation of joint awareness after acetabular fracture: Validation of the Forgotten Joint Score according to the COSMIN checklist protocol. Freigang V, Weber J, Mueller K, Pfeifer C, Worlicek M, Alt V, Baumann FM. World J Orthop. 2021 Feb 18;12(2):69-81.