Over the past decade, there has been increased interest in the development
and utilization of validated functional outcomes instruments. Several of these
instruments have been published in the pages of The Journal. Because
of the increasing interest in multicenter/multinational studies, many of these
instruments are being appropriately translated and validated in other
languages. The focus of The Journal continues to be on issues related
to diseases and injuries involving the musculoskeletal system. We do not
consider ourselves to be a health services research journal. To this end, our
policy will be to consider for publication in The Journal
translations of other validated instruments from their primary languages into
English, but we will not consider translation of validated functional outcomes
instruments originally developed in English into other languages. These
publications are best directed to clinical research journals or orthopaedic
journals in the language of interest.