MOS 20-Item Short Form Survey Instrument (SF-20) (HTML)
View and print the 20-Item Short Form Survey developed for MOS.
20-Item Short Form Survey (SF-20)
The 20-Item Short Form Health Survey (SF-20) was developed for the Medical Outcomes Study (MOS), a multi-year study of patients with chronic conditions. The resulting short-form survey instrument provides a solution to the problem faced by many investigators who must restrict survey length. The instrument was designed to reduce respondent burden while achieving minimum standards of precision for purposes of group comparisons involving multiple health dimensions.
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