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    London Handicap Scale (LHS)

    [ The LHS uses a weighted scoring system. An unweighted scoring system version also exists: the U-LHS (Jenkinson C et al., 2000).
    A version for children of the LHS exists in Dutch: the Handicap Scale for Children, HSC (Detmar SB et al., 2005) ]

    Author(s)
    Harwood Rowan H
    Purpose
      Pathology:
    Generic

      Disease:
    All

      Objective:
    To assess health status in patients with chronic, multiple, or progressive diseases

      Population:
    Adult
    Geriatrics
    Characteristics
      Type of instrument:
    Physical functioning
    Health-Related Quality of Life - HRQL (incl. health status)

      Mode of administration:
    Caregiver-administered
    Interviewer-administered
    Self-administered

      Number of items:
    6

      Existence of database:
    No

      Time recall:
    Over the last week
     
    Language(s)
      Original language:
    English for the UK

      List of existing translations:
    (the translations may not have undergone a full linguistic validation process. Please check status of translations with Mapi Research Trust / the developers / copyright holders / distributors)


    Cantonese for Hong-Kong
    English for Ireland*
    French for Switzerland*
    Slovenian*
    Czech*
    Finnish*
    German*
    Spanish*
    Danish*
    French for Belgium*
    Italian*
    Swedish*
    Dutch*
    French*
    Polish*
     


    * translations performed by the Mapi Research Institute
     


    Last update: November 2007
    Last update in collaboration with the author: May 2003


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