WHO Leprosy Disability Grade and Eye-Hand-Foot (EHF) Score
Grades leprosy disability by the WHO 2009 rules: each eye, hand and foot 0, 1 or 2 (eyes have no grade 1), the patient grade as the highest, and the eye-hand-foot score as the sum of six (0-12).
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Example
- Right eye
- Grade 0: normal
- Left eye
- Grade 0: normal
- Right hand
- Grade 0: normal
- Left hand
- Grade 1: loss of feeling only
- Right foot
- Grade 2: wound, ulcer, claw hand, foot drop or tissue loss
- Left foot
- Grade 1: loss of feeling only
Result: Disability grade 2 (right foot); EHF score 4 of 12.
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What you enter
- Right eye
- Left eye
- Right hand
- Left hand
- Right foot
- Left foot
How this is calculated
Citation
WHO SEARO. Enhanced global strategy for further reducing the disease burden due to leprosy (2011-2015): operational guidelines (updated). 2009, pp. 22-23 and 54. Read the source ↗
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