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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Apr 8.
Published in final edited form as: Plast Reconstr Surg. 2010 Jun;125(6):1826–1833. doi: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3181d51276

Table 4.

Quality of Measurement Tools

Type of Measurement Tool ∼ % of Studies Utilizing This Type
(# of Studies)
Ad-hoc Questionnaires Only 68% (121)
Generic Questionnaires Only 10% (18)
Well-developed, Procedure-specific Questionnaires Only 12% (21)
Combination of Ad-hoc and Generic Questionnaires 6% (11)
Combination of Ad-hoc and Well-developed, Procedure-specific Questionnaires 1.5% (3)
Combination of Generic and Well- developed, Procedure-specific Questionnaires 1.5% (3)
Combination of Ad-hoc, Generic, and Well-developed, Procedure-specific Questionnaires 0.5% (1)