• Sergio Barroso Rosa, Andrea Grant, and Peter McEwen.
• Departamento de Ciencias Médicas y Quirúrgicas, Universidad de las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain. sergio.barroso@ulpgc.es.
• Arch Orthop Trauma Surg. 2023 Jul 1; 143 (7): 391939273919-3927.

IntroductionPatellofemoral conditions include, but are not limited to, anterior knee pain syndrome and patellar instability. Patients and surgeons may find it difficult to identify the specific source of the symptoms and clinical scenarios, so patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) may be a useful diagnostic aid. There are a number of available PROMs for patellofemoral conditions, which are often used indistinctly. This systematic review explores the available PROMs for patellofemoral conditions, their use and methodological quality.MethodsA systematic review was conducted, searching for scientific articles relating to PROMs in patellofemoral conditions, from inception to July 2022. Scoring systems including physician-directed or imagining assessment were not included. All types of conditions in the patellofemoral joint were considered.ResultsTwenty-two relevant PROMs were encountered, divided into four categories: eight PROMs for anterior knee pain syndrome, five for patellar instability, four for other patellofemoral conditions and five for non-specific PROMs.ConclusionsWhile many PROMs have been found used in patellofemoral research, only few of them have showed sufficient methodological quality. In addition, PROMs employed in PF literature are often inaccurately chosen. This review may help authors to better understand the characteristics of specific patellofemoral PROMs, in order to select the more appropriate and recommended ones.Level Of EvidenceLevel II.© 2022. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.

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