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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:

Health-Related Quality of Life - HRQL (incl. health status)
Physical functioning

Mode of administration:

Caregiver-administered
Interviewer-administered
Self-administered

Number of items:

Existence of database:

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 Institute

Last update: November 2008
Last update in collaboration with the author: May 2003