FHSQ
Foot Health Status Questionnaire
About Us
CareQuest is an Australian organisation representing a collaboration of researchers committed to developing and distributing patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) and software suitable for 2026 and beyond.
Foot health status Questionnaire
The FHSQ was developed to meet the needs of researchers seeking a reliable way to assess foot health-related quality of life. Its distinctive approach was recognized early in Australia and earned it a national research award.
Today, the FHSQ is a widely adopted international research tool, translated into multiple languages and used by researchers and students across all levels of study—including Honours, Masters, and PhD programs.
Notably, the American Orthopaedic Association’s AO Handbook: Musculoskeletal Outcome Measures and Instruments (Suk 2005) recognized the FHSQ as the most scientifically valid foot and ankle measurement PROM among 25 independently assessed instruments. In 2025 Harjot et.al. further demonstrated the questionnaires alignment with National Institutes of Health and American Medical Association Standards of design at the highest level.
Based on evolution, there has been a transition in thinking on how to transfer years of experimental lab research into an efficient clinical tool for use by practitioners on a daily basis. This has culminated in an innovation in design thinking to produce a new fully automated, simple to use, secure, cloud-based FHSQ-iConnect platform. Feedback from PoC and Beta testing demonstrates the project is focused and delivering powerful new insights into how PROMs can be successfully integrates into daily clinical workflow. Its on target. FHSQ-iConnect is due for release in Q1 2026.
This latest advancement features a new set of four health indices that empower clinicians to interpret in results in seconds and track patient outcomes over short and longer time intervals delivering new clinical insights.
A key project goal was that clinicians should be able to intergrade a clinical test from their desktop PC’s that would take little time due to the program’s highly intuitive design. It’s easier for established clinicians to do this, but newer practitioners will experience immediate benefits.
Considering average clinicians sees dozens of patients in a day, this demonstrates how much work has gone into developing a seamless method where this can still be achieved while adding greater quality and value at the same time.