Health-Related Quality of Life Outcomes Improve After Multilevel Surgery in Ambulatory Children With Cerebral Palsy

V. Cuomo, Anna; C. Gamradt, Seth; O. Kim, Chang; Pirpiris, Marinis; E. Gates, Philip; J. McCarthy, James; Y. Otsuka, Norman

doi:10.1097/bpo.0b013e3180dca147

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Health-Related Quality of Life Outcomes Improve After Multilevel Surgery in Ambulatory Children With Cerebral Palsy

Published in Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics • Sep 1, 2007

Authors:

Anna V. Cuomo

Seth C. Gamradt

Chang O. Kim

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Studies evaluating multilevel surgery to treat spastic deformity and functional deficits in cerebral palsy (CP) usually focus on data from instrumented gait analysis and clinical examination without examining functional and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) outcomes. Recently, outco...

Subject

Medicine

Cerebral palsy

Quality of life (healthcare)

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