Below are the approved language versions of the QUALEFFO-41 Questionnaire (a quality of life questionnaire in patients with vertebral fractures) and the IOF Wrist Fracture Questionnaire (a quality of life questionnaire in patients with wrist fractures). Please note that the IOF Wrist Fracture Questionnaire is intended to be used as a supplement to Qualeffo-41.

User Agreement
Please download and submit the agreement form (updated Jan 2020)  for use with both questionnaires. The respective scoring algorithms are provided below.

For other languages, please contact IOF.

Article of related interest:

Quality of life as outcome in the treatment of osteoporosis: the development of a questionnaire for quality of life by the European Foundation for Osteoporosis
Lips P., Cooper C., et al. Osteoporos Int. (1997) 7(1):36-8

Quality of Life in Patients with vertebral fractures: Validation of the Quality of Life Questionnaire of the European Foundation for Osteoporosis (QUALEFFO)
Lips P., Cooper C., et al. Osteoporos Int. (1999) 10(2):150-60

Validation of the IOF quality of life questionnaire for patients with wrist fracture
Lips P., Jameson K., Bianchi M.L., et al. Osteoporos Int (2010) 21: 61

Recommendation for measuring clinical outcome in distal radius fractures: a core set of domains for standardized reporting in clinical practice and research
Goldhahn J., Beaton D., Ladd A., Macdermid J., Hoang-Kim A.,  On behalf of the Distal Radius Working Group of ISFR and IOF