A Critical Examination of the Polysymptomatic Distress Scale Construct as a Symptom Severity Questionnaire.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

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Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Fibromyalgia diagnostic model derived from combination of American College of Rheumatology 1990 and 2011 criteria.The Korean journal of pain · 2019
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2. Challenges in fibromyalgia diagnosis: from meaning of symptoms to fibromyalgia labeling.The Korean journal of pain · 2018
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Corrections and comments

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  The Polysymptomatic Distress Scale Is Simple, Useful, and Effective in Clinical Care and Clinical and Epidemiology Studies.2016
• Commented on by
  Drs. Friend and Bennett reply.2016
• Comment on
  The Use of Polysymptomatic Distress Categories in the Evaluation of Fibromyalgia (FM) and FM Severity.2015

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Funding

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Abstract

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