Patient_Reported_Outcome_Measures_in_Rheumatic_Diseases

9 Greenhalgh hypothesizes that effective communication between physician and patient may lead to initiation of a treatment regim ...

10 a given medical condition. In the value-based healthcare framework hierarchy of outcome domains, patient health status achiev ...

11 Multi-Item Scales Multi-item PROs are typically applied to assess constructs that require the patient to reconstruct, interpr ...

12 intercorrelated, whereas in the case of an index, items that intercorrelate to the small- est extent possible are usually fav ...

13 that they can use to help develop more reliable tests. It is a desirable quality of any measurement instrument to be as free ...

14 rheumatology. Consequently, the majority of papers on measurement properties of PROs in rheumatology utilize CTT approaches t ...

15 specific research needs, either by manually selecting items that are believed to closely match the levels of the measured tra ...

16 rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis. Since most of the current generation of mea- sures were developed according to the p ...

17 Wolfe F, Pincus T. Listening to the patient: a practical guide to self-report questionnaires in clinical care. Arthritis Rhe ...

18 Fries JF, Spitz P, Kraines RG, Holman HR. Measurement of patient outcome in arthritis. Arthritis Rheum. 1980;23:137–45. Calv ...

19 Ware JE, Sherbourne CD. The MOS 36-item short-form health survey (SF-36). I. Conceptual framework and item selection. Med Ca ...

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 21 Y. El Miedany (ed.), Patient Reported Outcome Measures in Rheumatic Dise ...

22 Importance of Patient Reported Outcome Measures Though medical technology has enabled the treating healthcare professionals t ...

23 adversely affect quality of life [ 9 ]. The role of QOL/PROMs in cancer care can be considered in the following conditions su ...

24 Being disease-specific, this makes these instruments clinically relevant. On the other side, it is not generally possible to ...

25 • I—Physical function: mobility, dexterity, range of movement, physical activity; activities of daily living: ability to e ...

26 of new healthcare technologies when the therapeutic effects are uncertain. However, some level of detail has to be sacrificed ...

27 physical function that coincides with a deterioration in psychological well-being. However, the brevity of summary items limi ...

28 • Evidence—Instrument selection should consider expert recommendations that are based on comprehensive reviews and profess ...

29 or longitudinal. However, an item that asks about family history of a particular disease or previous environmental exposure m ...