1 Before you use it
What it is
Nine items built specifically for Dupuytren's disease — washing your hands, putting a hand in a pocket, holding a large object, picking up a small object, gripping a bottle.
The only Dupuytren-specific PROM in this library, and the reason that page has one.
When to reach for it
Any Dupuytren's presentation, at baseline and review, and specifically when the question is whether the deformity is actually costing anything.
Pair it with Tubiana staging. One measures the deformity, the other measures what it costs.
Patterns it serves · 1
2 Giving it
Scoring
Nine items, 0–5 each, summed to 0–45. Higher means more limitation.
What it doesn’t measure
The deformity itself — degrees of contracture, the table-top test, cord location. Use Tubiana and goniometry.
Repeat it
3 Reading the score
Interpreting it
Interpret against baseline.
Function, not deformity. A patient with a visibly impressive cord who can still do all nine tasks is not a surgical candidate on function alone — which is exactly the point the Dupuytren's page makes.
Is the change real?
On placement
Dupuytren's contracture, post-fasciectomy, 6 weeks of hand therapy. URAM 24 at referral, 12 today.
Read it as 12 points down, over the 10.5-point MCID (measured in Dupuytren's disease). Meaningful — and it is function, not deformity, that the scale reads.
Do the nine tasks are the plan; the two still scored highest are the next block. The cord's appearance is not your outcome.
Student trap. Referring on the appearance of the hand. The referral conversation is driven by what they can't do, and this is the instrument that shows it.
Official source: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. We don't host the form.
This is a learning tool. It does not diagnose patients and does not replace your clinical educator.
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