Σύγκριση μεθόδων

	Δείκτης Οστεοαρθρίτιδας WOMAC	Δείκτης Αναπηρίας Oswestry
Πεδίο	Αποκατάσταση	Αποκατάσταση
Οικογένεια	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Έτος προέλευσης	1988	1980
Δημιουργός	Bellamy, Buchanan, Goldsmith	Fairbank, Couper, Davies, O'Brien
Τύπος	Patient-reported outcome measure	Patient-reported outcome measure
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	Bellamy, N., Buchanan, W. W., Goldsmith, C. H., Campbell, J., & Stitt, L. W. (1988). Validation study of WOMAC: a health status instrument for measuring clinically important patient relevant outcomes to antirheumatic drug therapy in patients with osteoarthritis of the hip or knee. Journal of Rheumatology, 15(12), 1833–1840.	Oswestry, J. D., Proudfoot, S. J., Everleigh, S., & Sparkes, V. (1980). An automatic method for measuring vertebral interbody disc heights. Clinical Biomechanics, 5(2), 104–109.
Εναλλακτικές ονομασίες	WOMAC Scale, WOMAC Arthritis Index	ODI, Oswestry Index, Low Back Pain Scale
Συναφείς	4	4
Σύνοψη	The Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index (WOMAC) is a widely used patient-reported outcome measure designed to assess pain, stiffness, and physical function in patients with osteoarthritis of the hip or knee. Developed by Bellamy and colleagues in 1988, it has become the gold standard outcome measure in osteoarthritis clinical trials and practice.	The Oswestry Disability Index (ODI) is a disease-specific measure of disability due to low back pain, originally developed by Fairbank and colleagues in 1980. It is one of the most widely used outcome measures in spine care, enabling clinicians and researchers to quantify the functional impact of low back pain and track treatment response in patients across acute, subacute, and chronic presentations.