ArticleQuality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation2017
The challenge of measuring intra-individual change in fatigue during cancer treatment.
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- Screening and Assessment of Cancer-Related Fatigue: A Clinical Practice Guideline for Health Care Providers.Physical therapy · 2022Guideline
- Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System in patients with gastrointestinal cancer: a scoping review.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2023Article
- Likely change indexes improve estimates of individual change on patient-reported outcomes.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2023Article
- Between-group minimally important change versus individual treatment responders.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2021Review
- The visual time analog scale: simple, novel measurement approach to assess pain in patients with chronic pain.Pain management · 2021Article
- Feasibility and Validity of Asking Patients to Define Individual Levels of Meaningful Change on Patient-Reported Outcomes.Journal of patient-centered research and reviews · 2020Article
- Can Methods Developed for Interpreting Group-level Patient-reported Outcome Data be Applied to Individual Patient Management?Medical care · 2019Article
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Abstract
purposeTo evaluate how well three different patient-reported outcomes (PROs) measure individual change.
methodsTwo hundred and fourteen patients (from two sites) initiating first or new chemotherapy for any stage of breast or gastrointestinal cancer participated. The 13-item FACIT Fatigue scale, a 7-item PROMIS
resultsA linear model for measured change showed the following by 6 and 3 months, respectively: PROMIS CAT (0.363 and 0.342); PROMIS SF (0.408 and 0.533); FACIT (0.459 and 0.473). Quadratic models offered no noteworthy improvement over linear models. Both reliability and precision results demonstrate the need to improve the measurement of intra-individual change.
conclusionsThese results illustrate the challenge of reliably measuring individual change in fatigue with a level of confidence required for intervention. Optimizing clinically useful measurement of intra-individual differences over time continues to pose a challenge for PROs.
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