ArticleHealth and quality of life outcomes2017
Development and validation of a condition-specific diary to measure severity, bothersomeness and impact on daily activities for patients with acute urinary tract infection in primary care.
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- A Systematic Review of Health-Related Quality-of-Life Measurement in Patients With Complicated Urinary Tract Infections.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2025Pooled it
- Patient-reported outcome measures for uncomplicated urinary tract infections in women: a systematic review.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2023Pooled it
- Acute Cystitis Symptom Score questionnaire for measuring patient-reported outcomes in women with acute uncomplicated cystitis: Clinical validation as part of a phase III trial comparing antibiotic and nonantibiotic therapy.Investigative and clinical urology · 2020Trial
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- Temporary prostate brachytherapy alone or as boost: Single-institution experience on dose-response assessment focusing on sphincter-related urinary toxicity.Journal of contemporary brachytherapy · 2026Article
- The Holm and Cordoba Urinary Tract Infection Score: Translation, Linguistic and Content Validation of the German Version of a Patient-Reported Outcome Measure to Assess Symptoms, Bothersomeness and Impact of Uncomplicated Urinary Tract Infections in Women.Neurourology and urodynamics · 2025Article
- Content Validity and Psychometric Properties of the German Version of the Holm and Cordoba Urinary Tract Infection Score for Uncomplicated Urinary Tract Infections in Women: Protocol for a Validation Study.JMIR research protocols · 2024Article
- Severity and Bothersomeness of Urinary Tract Infection Symptoms in Women before and after Menopause.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Polish version of the Acute Cystitis Symptom Score for patients with acute uncomplicated cystitis.Central European journal of urology · 2023Article
- Influence of Antimicrobial Resistance on the Course of Symptoms in Female Patients Treated for Uncomplicated Cystitis Caused byAntibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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- Additional assessment of Acute Cystitis Symptom Score questionnaire for patient-reported outcome measure in female patients with acute uncomplicated cystitis: part II.World journal of urology · 2020Article
- Factors associated with the duration of symptoms in adult women with suspected cystitis in primary care.PloS one · 2018Article
- Atlas of patient-reported outcome measures, nomograms and scoring systems used in simple and complicated urinary tract infections: a systematic review.Therapeutic advances in infectious diseaseReview
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Abstract
backgroundUrinary tract infection (UTI) is a common condition in primary care. Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) are crucial in the evaluation of interventions to improve diagnosis, treatment and prognosis of UTI. The aim of this study was to identify an existing condition-specific PROM to measure symptom severity, bothersomeness and impact on daily activities for adult patients with suspected urinary tract infection in primary care; or, in the absence of such a PROM, to test items identified from existing PROMs for coverage and relevance in single and group interviews and to psychometrically validate the resulting PROM.
methodsThe literature was searched for existing PROMs covering the three domains. Items from the identified PROMs were tested in single and group interviews. The resulting symptom diary was psychometrically validated using the partial credit Rasch model for polytomous items in a cohort of 451 women participating in two studies regarding UTI.
resultsNo existing PROM fulfilled the inclusion criteria. Content validation resulted in one domain concerning symptom severity (18 items), one concerning bothersomeness (18 items), and one concerning impact on daily activities (7 items). Psychometrical validation resulted in four dimensions in each of the first two domains and one dimension in the third domain.
conclusionsDomains were not unidimensional, which meant that we identified dimensions of patient-experienced UTI that differed substantially from those previously found. We recommend that future studies on UTI, in which PROMs are to be used, should ensure high content validity of their outcome measures and unidimensionality of the included dimensions.
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