Background. In the last few years, instruments that measure outcomes and quality of life as perceived by the patient have become tools of great clinical value. The Zurich Claudication Questionnaire is one of the main instruments for the assessment of patients suffer ing from lumbar spinal stenosis. Nonetheless, no valid version has been published for use in the Spanish po pulation.
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