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 originally developed to address the need for a reliable measure of foot health–related quality of life in research settings. Its innovative approach was recognised early with a national research award in Australia. Today, the FHSQ is widely used internationally, translated into multiple languages, and adopted by researchers as well as Honours, Masters, and PhD students.
The American Orthopaedic Association’s AO Handbook: Musculoskeletal Outcome Measures and Instruments (Suk, 2005) identified the FHSQ as the most scientifically robust foot and ankle patient‑reported outcome measure (PROM) among 25 independently evaluated instruments. More recently, Uppal et al. (2025) demonstrated that the questionnaire aligns with National Institutes of Health and American Medical Association standards for instrument design at the highest level.
Over time, thinking has evolved about how best to translate years of experimental research into a practical clinical reporting tool that clinicians can use daily. This has led to an innovative design approach that integrates psychometric and clinimetric principles within a fully automated, user‑friendly, secure, cloud‑based platform.