Use of scoring systems for assessing and reporting the outcome results from shoulder surgery and arthroplasty

Table 1 Shoulder scoring systems used in 2012 and 2013

Shoulder scoring system	No. of times used	No. of times used	No. of times used in
	in articles in 2012	in articles in 2013	articles in 2012 and 2013
CS	47	44	91
American shoulder and elbow surgeons evaluation form	41	32	73
The disability of the arm, shoulder and hand score	22	13	35
SST	16	13	29
University of California/Los Angeles shoulder score	15	13	28
Western ontario osteoarthritis score	6	0	6
The OSS	4	6	10
SF-12 general health	3	7	10
Western ontario rotator cuff score	3	5	8
SF-36 general health	1	8	9
Penn shoulder score	1	2	3
Shoulder pain and disability index	1	4	5
Western ontario shoulder instability score	1	2	3
Rowe shoulder instability score	1	2	3
Single assessment numeric evaluation score	1	7	8
Kerlan-Jobe orthopaedic clinic overhead athlete score	1	2	3
Hospital for special surgery shoulder score	0	0	0
OSIS	0	2	2

CS: Constant score; SST: Simple shoulder test; OSS: Oxford shoulder score; SF-12: Short form-12; OSIS: Oxford instability score.