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ArticleNursing outlook

Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS): efficient, standardized tools to measure self-reported health and quality of life.

Margaret Bevans, Alyson Ross, David Cella

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Article in Nursing outlook. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 105 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

105 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  16. Tracking quality of life-related outcomes in the U.S. population with monthly PROMIS computerized adaptive testing.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2026
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  18. Quality of life in patients with scarring and non-scarring alopecia: An exploratory cross-sectional study.Journal der Deutschen Dermatologischen Gesellschaft = Journal of the German Society of Dermatology : JDDG · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Margaret BevansNursing Research and Translational Science, Nursing Department, National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, Bethesda, MD. Electronic address: mbevans@cc.nih.gov.
Alyson RossNursing Research and Translational Science, Nursing Department, NIH Clinical Center, Bethesda, MD.
David CellaDepartment of Medical Social Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL; Center for Patient-Centered Outcomes, Institute for Public Health and Medicine, Chicago, IL.

Funding

The National Person-Centered Assessment Resource (PCAR)U2CCA186878 · NCI · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI ROTHROCK, NAN E · 2014 to 2018
$11.9M
PROMIS Statistical CenterU54AR057951 · NIAMS · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI CELLA, DAVID · 2009 to 2014
$3.6M
PROMIS to explore Burden and Stress in Cancer CaregiversZIACL001192 · CLC · CLINICAL CENTER · PI LEE, LENA · 2014 to 2022
$0k
Intramural NIH HHS ZIA CL001192NCI NIH HHS U2C CA186878NIAMS NIH HHS U54 AR057951NIAMS NIH HHS U54AR057951
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

All nurses are interested in the effects of diseases and treatments on individuals. Patient-reported outcome (PRO) measures are used to obtain self-reported information about symptoms, function, perceptions, and experiences. However, there are challenges to their use, including multiple measures of the same concept, widely varying quality, excessive length and complexity, and difficulty comparing findings across studies and conditions. To address these challenges, the National Institutes of Health funded the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS), a web-based repository of valid and reliable PRO measures of health concepts relevant to clinician and researchers. Through the PROMIS Assessment Center, clinicians and researchers can access PRO measures, administer computerized adaptive tests, collect self-report data, and report instant health assessments. The purpose of this article was to summarize the development and validation of the PROMIS measures and to describe its current functionality as it relates to nursing science.

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Diagnostic Self EvaluationPatient Outcome AssessmentQuality of LifeAdultData CollectionFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedNursing ResearchProgram EvaluationPsychometricsUnited StatesItem response theoryMeasurementsPatient-centered outcomesWeb-based data collection

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PMID25015409
PMCPMC4179871

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