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Aasheim T, Finsen V.
DASH AND QUICK-DASH QUESTIONNAIRES; AVERAGE SCORES IN THE GENERAL POPULATION IN NORWAY.
J Hand Surg (Eur) 2014; 39(E): 140-144
We collected population based normative data for the DASH and QuickDASH questionnaires in order to determine the co-morbidity to be expected in a group of patients. We also studied the correlation between the two scores. 2000 DASH forms and 800 QuickDASH forms were mailed to 200 men and 200 women randomly selected in each age decade from 20-29 to over 80. 50 % of the DASH forms and 56% of the QuickDASH forms were returned (p<0.005). Mean DASH scores for women rose with age from 5 among those aged 20-29 to 22 among those aged 70-79 and 36 for those over 80. The corresponding mean values for men were 5, 13 and 22. Mean DASH and QuickDASH scores extracted from the DASH forms were very similar in each age decade. Spearman’s correlation coefficient for the two forms was 0.965 for all 992 forms and 0.930 for the 174 forms with scores of 30 or more. There were, however, wide confidence limits for the agreement between scores in individual patients. The high average scores in the general population, particularly among the elderly, should be borne in mind when evaluating scores among patients. The QuickDASH should be preferred to the full DASH as it gives the same information, but is shorter and more often responded to.