Published in Rheumatology international
The objective of this study is to assess the impact of inflammatory arthritis on young adults' activity participation using quantitative and qualitative methods to advance the field's conceptualization of functional status. Young adults diagnosed with juvenile idiopathic arthritis or rheumatoid arthritis completed (1) the Health Assessment Question...
Published in BMC Health Services Research
BackgroundComposite measures combine data to provide a comprehensive view of patient outcomes. Despite composite measures being a valuable tool to assess post-intervention outcomes, the patient perspective is often missing. The purpose of this study was to develop a composite measure for an established cardiac outcome registry, by combining clinica...
Published in Health and Quality of Life Outcomes
BackgroundThe Angioedema Quality of Life (AE-QoL) is the first patient reported outcome measure developed for the assessment of quality of life (QoL) impairment in patients with recurrent angioedema (RAE). This study aimed to evaluate the clinimetric properties of the AE-QoL in Thai patients and to establish categories of QoL impairment assessed by...
Published in Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes
BackgroundHyperhidrosis is estimated to affect ~ 4.8% of the US population, and most patients experience a negative psychological impact. Here, we describe development and psychometric evaluation of a patient-reported outcome (PRO) measure to assess severity of axillary hyperhidrosis in clinical trials that meets current U.S. regulatory standards t...
Published in Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation
To assess psychometric properties and cross-language measurement equivalence of six versions of the Bristol Rheumatoid Arthritis Fatigue Scale (BRAF-MDQ) and the Rheumatoid Arthritis Impact of Disease Score (RAID in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Both questionnaires were completed by French (n = 206), German (n = 206), Dutch (n = 317), Spanish (n = 157...
Published in Trials
BackgroundCore outcome sets (COS) are being developed in many clinical areas to increase the quality and comparability of clinical trial results as well as to ensure their relevance for patients. A COS represents an agreed standardized set of outcomes that describes the minimum that should be consistently reported in all clinical trials of a define...
Published in Journal of Ovarian Research
IntroductionThe use of patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) has increased during the past decade, and the focus on how to use them has resulted in a more proactive application. Studies have shown that proactive use of PROMs during treatment improves patient-clinician communication, leads to better symptom management and may prolong survival am...
Published in Der Unfallchirurg
HintergrundGeriatrische Sakrumfrakturen stellen eine eigenständige Frakturentität mit wachsender Inzidenz und von steigender gesundheitsökonomischer Relevanz dar. Die Ziele der Behandlung sind sehr unterschiedlich zu denen bei jüngeren Patienten mit Hochenergiebeckenverletzungen. Um den Erfolg der Behandlung geriatrischer Sakrumfrakturen beurteilen...
Published in Advances in Therapy
IntroductionThe objective was to identify the most commonly used patient-reported outcome (PRO) instruments for overactive bladder (OAB), determine which are the most useful for measuring burden in OAB and characterize the findings of recent studies that have employed PRO instruments to assess OAB symptoms and the effects of treatment.MethodsA syst...
Published in Oncology and Therapy
IntroductionSystematic documentation of chemotoxicities in outpatient clinics is challenging. Incorporating patient-reported outcome (PRO) measures in clinical workflows can be an efficient strategy to strengthen the assessment of symptomatic treatment toxicities in oncology clinical practice. We compared the adequateness, feasibility, and acceptab...
