This comprehensive short-form with only 36 questions yields an 8-scale health profile as well as summary measures of health-related quality of life. As documented in more than 2000 publications, the SF-36® has proven useful in monitoring general and specific populations, comparing the burden of different diseases, differentiating the health benefits produced by different treatments, and in screening individual patients. (more details)

This manual was prepared to be a companion to existing manuals about the SF-36® Health Survey. This manual documents the improvements in SF-36®, Version 2. This manual also presents up-to-date norms for SF-36® scales and summary measures as well as citations for nearly 1,500 publications. (more details)

An even shorter — 1-page, 2-minute — survey form has been shown to yield summary physical and mental health outcome scores that are interchangeable with those from the SF-36® in both general and specific populations. This short-form — the SF-12® — which was published in early 1995 is already one of the most widely used surveys. (more details)

Yielding physical and mental summary scores that are comparable with those from the SF-36 in both general and specific populations, the SF-12v2 was developed by QualityMetric to improve on the SF-12 in scoring, item construction, and survey layout. (more details)

The SF-8™ Health Survey represents a major advance in the application of SF technology for purposes of achieving both brevity and comprehensiveness in population health surveys. It has only eight questionnaire items. By relying on a single item to measure each of the eight domains of health in the SF-36® Health Survey, the SF-8™ represents the ultimate phase in the evolution of SF assessments - single-item scales. (more details)

The new Norm-based scoring (NBS) for the SF-12^® and SF-36^® is a recalibration of the original SF-36^® and makes the profiles easier to interpret and results directly comparable with the widely used summary measures.