Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Table 2 Assessment of psychometric properties of the MSTS and the TESS

From: Functional evaluation for patients with lower extremity sarcoma: application of the Chinese version of Musculoskeletal Tumor Society scoring system

	Minimum	Maximum	Mean	SD	Percent floor	Percent ceiling	ICC	95% CI
Test
MSTS	6	30	21.5	7.1	0	7.14%	0.90^a	0.86–0.93^a
TESS	32	100	76.4	14.3	0	6.12%
Retest
MSTS	6	30	21.8	6.8	0	7.14%	0.91^b	0.85–0.96^b
TESS	33	100	77.3	15.2	0	6.12%	0.88^b	0.83–0.93^b

MSTS indicates Musculoskeletal Tumor Society; TESS indicates Toronto Extremity Salvage Score; SD indicates standard deviation; ICC indicates intraclass correlation coefficient; CI indicates confidential interval
^aICC for the inter-observer reliability; ^bICC for test-retest reliability

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