Non-preference-based patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) are popular in health outcomes research. These measures, however, cannot be used to estimate health state utilities, limiting their usefulness for economic evaluations. Mapping PROMs to a...
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Patient-reported experience measures have the potential to guide improvement in health care delivery. Many patient-reported experience measures are limited by the presence of strong ceiling effects that limit their analytic...
BACKGROUND: Assessing patient-reported outcomes (PROs) through interviews or conversations during clinical encounters provides insightful information about survivorship.
Digestive and liver disease : official journal of the Italian Society of Gastroenterology and the Italian Association for the Study of the Liver
Sep 26, 2021
BACKGROUND: Messages from an Internet forum are raw material that emerges in a natural setting (i.e., non-induced by a research situation).
Value in health : the journal of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research
May 18, 2021
OBJECTIVES: The Global Assessment of Change (GAC) item has facilitated the interpretation of change in patient-reported outcomes, providing an anchor for computing minimally important differences. Construct validity has been documented via disease-sp...
BACKGROUND: Open radical cystectomy (ORC) is still considered the reference approach for RC, although robot-assisted RC (RARC) has recently gained in popularity. There are literature reports on perioperative and oncologic outcomes of RARC, but functi...
Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation
Mar 9, 2021
OBJECTIVE: To explore the association between preoperative physical performance with short- and long-term postoperative outcomes in patients undergoing lumbar spinal fusion (LSF).
BACKGROUND: The use of technology such as navigation and robotic systems may improve the accuracy of component positioning in total hip arthroplasty (THA), but its impact on patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) remains unclear. This study aims t...
Otolaryngology--head and neck surgery : official journal of American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
Feb 16, 2021
OBJECTIVES: (1) Demonstrate true vocal fold (TVF) tracking software (AGATI [Automated Glottic Action Tracking by artificial Intelligence]) as a quantitative assessment of unilateral vocal fold paralysis (UVFP) in a large patient cohort. (2) Correlate...
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