Hip scores: A current concept review

Abstract

Abstract Introduction During the past decades, several rating scales have been developed to assess the functional status of patients with hip pain. Source of data A search in Medline, PubMed, Cochrane and CINAHL was performedusing combinations of the following‘hip’, ‘scoring system’, ‘scale’, ‘scores’, ‘outcome assessment’, ‘arthroplasty’, ‘arthroscopy’ and ‘clinical evaluation’. Areas of agreement A total 16 scoring systems are currently available for the evaluation of the hip. Areas of controversy Two types of questionnaires are available: physician-rated and patient-rated questionnaires. Growing points Each hip score consists of different domains. Interpreting these domains becomes sometimes difficult, because, even though they can be common to more than one scoring system, each stresses them in a different way. Areas timely for developing research Although many scoring systems have been used to evaluate hip function, we are still far from a single outcome evaluation system which is reliable, valid and sensitive.