Introduction
Measures of health status and healthcare outcomes are tools to assess a person's current or future health status and demonstrate the effectiveness of treatment.
Below you can access measures used by clinicians on the WorkSafe Clinical Panel. The list is not exhaustive but includes measures that are particularly useful in clinical practice. Using the links provided, you can download and print the measure, or complete and score it online. All measures are free to use.
For terms you may be unfamiliar with, see the Definitions section on this page.
Non-specific measures
General Measures
Patient Global Impression of Change (PGIC)/Global Rating of Change (GRC)
- Type
- evaluative
- Description
- Advantages
- Precautions or limitations
Patient Specific Functional Scale (PSFS)
- Type
- evaluative
- Description
- Advantages
- Precautions or limitations
Work Productivity and Activity Impairment Questionnaire (WPAI)
- Type
- evaluative
- Description
- Advantages
- Precautions or limitations
Screening measures
General measures
Orebro Musculoskeletal Pain Screening Questionnaire (OMSPQ)
- Type
- discriminative
- predictive
- Description
- Advantages
- Precautions or limitations
Short Form Orebro Musculoskeletal Pain Screening Questionnaire (OMSPQ-10)
- Type
- discriminative
- predictive
- Description
- Advantages
- Precautions or limitations
Keele STarT Back Screening Tool
- Type
- discriminative
- predictive
- Description
- Advantages
- Precautions or limitations
WhipPredict
- Type
- discriminative
- predictive
- Description
- Advantages
- Precautions or limitations
Pain measures
General measures
Brief Pain Inventory (BPI)
- Type
- discriminative of pain severity
- evaluative
- Description
- Advantages
- Precautions or limitations
Pain Self Efficacy Questionnaire (PSEQ)
- Type
- discriminative of severity
- evaluative
- Description
- Advantages
- Precautions or limitations
Pain Catastrophising Scale (PCS)
- Type
- discriminative of severity of pain catastrophising
- evaluative
- predictive of persistent pain, disability and a poor return to work outcome
- Description
- Advantages
- Precautions or limitations
Tampa Scale for Kinesiophobia (TSK)
- Type
- evaluative
- predictive
- Description
- Advantages
- Precautions or limitations
Self report Leeds Assessment of Neuropathic Symptoms and Signs Scale (s-LANSS)
- Type
- discriminative for neuropathic and nociceptive pain
- evaluative
- Description
- Advantages
- Precautions or limitations
painDETECT
- Type
- discriminative for neuropathic pain components in adults with low back pain
- Description
- Advantages
- Precautions or limitations
Musculoskeletal measures
Back and lower limb
Hip Disability and Osteoarthritis Score (HOOS)
- Type
- evaluative
- Description
- Advantages
- Precautions or limitations
- Online tool available
Lower Extremity Functional Scale (LEFS)
- Type
- evaluative
- Description
- Advantages
- Precautions or limitations
- Online tool available
Foot and Ankle Disability Index (FADI)
- Type
- evaluative
- Description
- Advantages
- Precautions or limitations
- Online tool available
Oswestry Disability Questionnaire (ODQ)
- Type
- evaluative
- Description
- Advantages
- Precautions or limitations
- Online tool available
Québec Back Pain Disability Scale (QBPDS)
- Type
- evaluative
- Description
- Advantages
- Precautions or limitations
Back Bournemouth Questionnaire
- Type
- evaluative
- Description
- Advantages
- Precautions or limitations
Head, neck and upper limb
Disabilities of the Arm Shoulder and Hand (DASH)
- Type
- evaluative
- Description
- Advantages
- Precautions or limitations
- Online tool available
Quick DASH
- Type
- evaluative
- Description
- Advantages
- Precautions or limitations
- Online tool available
Shoulder Pain and Disability Index (SPADI)
- Type
- evaluative
- Description
- Advantages
- Precautions or limitations
Upper Extremity Functional Index (UEFI)
- Type
- evaluative
- Description
- Advantages
- Precautions or limitations
Whiplash Disability Questionnaire (WDQ)
- Type
- evaluative
- Description
- Advantages
- Precautions or limitations
Headache Disability Index (HDI)
- Type
- evaluative
- Description
- Advantages
- Precautions or limitations
Neck Disability Index (NDI)
- Type
- evaluative
- Description
- Advantages
- Precautions or limitations
- Online tool available
Neck Bournemouth Questionnaire
- Type
- evaluative
- Description
- Advantages
- Precautions or limitations
Disability measures
Balance
Functional Independence Sitting Test (FIST)
- Type
- evaluative
- Description
- Advantages
- Precautions or limitations
5x sit to stand
- Type
- evaluative
- predictive
- Description
- Advantages
- Precautions or limitations
Timed Up and Go (TUG)
- Type
- evaluative
- predictive
- Description
- Advantages
- Precautions or limitations
Step Test
- Type
- evaluative
- Description
- Advantages
- Precautions or limitations
Functional Reach Test
- Type
- evaluative
- Description
- Advantages
- Precautions or limitations
Balance Evaluation Systems Test (BESTest)
- Type
- discriminative
- evaluative
- Description
- Advantages
- Precautions or limitations
Mobility
10-metre walk test
- Type
- evaluative
- predictive
- Description
- Advantages
- Precautions or limitations
6-minute walk test
- Type
- evaluative
- Description
- Advantages
- Precautions or limitations
HiMAT
- Type
- evaluative
- Description
- Advantages
- Precautions or limitations
Upper limb
Action Research Arm Test (ARAT)
- Type
- evaluative
- Description
- Advantages
- Precautions or limitations
Wheelchair User's Shoulder Pain Index (WUSPI)
- Type
- evaluative
- Description
- Advantages
- Precautions or limitations
Goal setting
Goal Attainment Scale (GAS)
- Type
- evaluative
- Description
- Advantages
- Precautions or limitations
Quality of life
Community Integration Questionnaire – Revised (CIQ–R)
- Type
- evaluative
- Description
- Advantages
- Precautions or limitations
Performance measures
30-second chair stand test
- Type
- evaluative
- Description
- Advantages
- Precautions or limitations
40-metre fast-paced walk
- Type
- evaluative
- Description
- Advantages
- Precautions or limitations
6-minute walk test
- Type
- evaluative
- Description
- Advantages
- Precautions or limitations
Psychological measures
Depression, anxiety (dis)stress
Depression Anxiety and Stress Scale 42 Item (DASS-42)
- Type
- discriminative
- evaluative
- Description
- Advantages
- Precautions or limitations
Depression Anxiety and Stress Scale 21 Item (DASS-21)
- Type
- discriminative
- evaluative
- Description
- Advantages
- Precautions or limitations
Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (K-10)
- Type
- evaluative
- predictive
- Description
- Advantages
- Precautions or limitations
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Impact of Events Scale – Revised (IES–R)
- Type
- discriminative
- predictive
- Description
- Advantages
- Precautions or limitations
Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Checklist – 5 (PCL–5)
- Type
- discriminative
- evaluative
- predictive
- Description
- Advantages
- Precautions or limitations
Substance abuse
Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test short form (AUDIT-C)
- Type
- discriminative
- Description
- Advantages
- Precautions or limitations
Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT)
- Type
- evaluative
- predictive
- Description
- Advantages
- Precautions or limitations
Drug Use Disorders Identification Test (DUDIT)
- Type
- discriminative
- evaluative
- Description
- Advantages
- Precautions or limitations
Child/Adolescent
Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale for DSM-5 – Child/Adolescent version (CAPS-CA-5)
- Type
- discriminative
- evaluative
- Description
- Advantages
- Precautions or limitations
Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ)
- Type
- evaluative
- predictive
- Description
- Advantages
- Precautions or limitations
Neuropsychology
Overt Behaviour Scale (OBS)
- Type
- evaluative
- Description
- Advantages
- Precautions or limitations
Definitions
Types of measures
- discriminative
- evaluative
- predictive
Other terms
- absenteeism
- catastrophising
- clinical prediction rule
- CAPS 5
- clinimetrics
- ePPOC
- fear avoidance
- floor effect, ceiling effect
- IMMPACT
- kinesiophobia
- minimum clinically important difference (MCID)
- MDC, MDC90, MDC95
- neuropathic pain
- nociceptive pain
- positive predictive value (PPV)
- presenteesim
- revised life events checklist
- WOMAC
- yellow flags