Table 4.

Summary of Patient-Reported Outcomes

	DASH		pain		Pain-VAS
Author	Pre- operative	Post- operative	Pre- operative (%*)	Post- operative (%*)	Pre- operative	Post- operative	Patient's satisfaction (%*)
Osterman, 1990	N/A	N/A	Constant: 5	Worse: 5	N/A	N/A	88
			Present: 7	No change: 10
			Intermittent: 86	Intermittent: 12
			None: 2	None: 73
Cooney, 1993	N/A	N/A	N/A	No change: 33	N/A	N/A	N/A
De Smet et al, 1996	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	46
Minami et al, 1996	N/A	N/A	Severe: 13	Severe: 6	N/A	N/A	81
			Moderate: 31	Moderate: 12
			Mild: 56	Slight: 50
				None: 31
Husby et al., 2001	N/A	N/A	N/A	No change: 14	N/A	2.9	94
				Mild: 23
				Slight: 40
				None: 23
Blackwell et al., 2001	N/A	N/A	N/A	Mild or None: 79	N/A	N/A	75
Miwa et al., 2004	N/A	N/A	N/A	Severe: 9	N/A	N/A	97
				Mild: 45.5
				Slight or None: 45.5
Darlis et al., 2005	N/A	N/A	N/A	No change: 15	Rest: 6.0	Rest: 2.7	N/A
				Pain relief: 85	Normal activity: 7.8	Normal activity: 3.8
					Heavy work: 8.5	Heavy work: 5.2
McAdams et al, 2009	43.2 ± 17.3	0	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Infanger et al., 2009	N/A	12	N/A	1A	N/A	N/A	N/A
				Severe: 0
				Moderate: 7
				Mild: 12
				None: 81
				1B
				Severe: 0
				Moderate: 22
				Mild: 22
				None: 56
				1C
				Severe: 0
				Moderate: 0
				Mild: 25
				None: 75
				1D
				Severe 0
				Moderate: 17
				Mild: 17
				None: 66
Tan et al, 2012	N/A	N/A	N/A	Servere: 0	N/A	N/A	N/A
				Moderate: 25
				Mild occasional: 33
				None: 42
Garcia-Lopez et al., 2012	N/A	N/A	N/A	No change: 4.9	N/A	N/A	N/A
				Incomplete pain relief: 14.8
				None: 80.3
Nishizuka et al., 2013	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	4.8	3.4	N/A
Cardenas-Montemayor et al., 2013	N/A	17.0	N/A	N/A	7.6	2.3	N/A
De Smet et al, 2014	42	25	N/A	N/A	N/A	4.6	N/A
Broccoli, et al., 2014	N/A	30.2	N/A	N/A	N/A	1.2	N/A
Moldner et al., 2015	N/A	18	N/A	N/A	7.6	2.0	N/A
Mean	39	18			7	3	84

^*“%” means a percentage of all patients in each study; VAS-visual analogue scale (0–10 scale); N/A-not available; DASH-the Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder, and Hand