Observational studyBMC health services research2018
Using PROMIS for measuring recovery after abdominal surgery: a pilot study.
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- Composite quality measures of abdominal surgery at a population level: systematic review.BJS open · 2023Pooled it
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- Country-specific reference values for PROMISAnnals of medicine · 2023Article
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- (Cost-)effectiveness of a personalized multidisciplinary eHealth intervention for knee arthroplasty patients to enhance return to activities of daily life, work and sports - rationale and protocol of the multicentre ACTIVE randomized controlled trial.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2023Article
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- Ability to Participate in Social Activities of Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Compared with Other Rheumatic Diseases: A Cross-Sectional Observational Study.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Generic PROMIS item banks in adults with hemophilia for patient-reported outcome assessment: Feasibility, measurement properties, and relevance.Research and practice in thrombosis and haemostasis · 2021Article
- Validation of PROMIS Profile-29 in adults with hemophilia in the Netherlands.Journal of thrombosis and haemostasis : JTH · 2021Article
- Implementation of PROMISPatient related outcome measures · 2021Article
- Proposal to extend the PROMIS® item bank v2.0 'Ability to Participate in Social Roles and Activities': item generation and content validity.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2020Article
- Selecting Patient-Reported Outcome Measures to Contribute to Primary Care Performance Measurement: a Mixed Methods Approach.Journal of general internal medicine · 2020Review
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Abstract
backgroundTo assess the construct validity and responsiveness of the PROMIS Physical Function v1.2 short form 8b (PROMIS-PF), and the PROMIS Ability to Participate in Social Roles and Activities v2.0 short form 8a (PROMIS-APS) in postoperative recovery.
methodsAn observational pilot study was conducted in which 30 patients participated, undergoing various forms of abdominal surgery. Patients completed the PROMIS-PF and PROMIS-APS, the Short Form 36 Health Survey (SF-36) and the World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule 2.0 (WHODAS) at several time points before and after surgery. The construct validity and responsiveness of the two PROMIS short forms were evaluated by testing pre-defined hypotheses and were considered adequate when at least 75% of the data was consistent with the hypotheses. Construct validity was evaluated by calculating Spearman correlations and the responsiveness by calculating effect sizes.
results6/7 (85.7%) of the results were consistent with the hypotheses supporting the construct validity of the PROMIS-PF. For the PROMIS-APS this was the case in 7/15 (46.7%) of the results. For the PROMIS-PF, 6/7 (85.7%) of the results were consistent with the hypotheses, supporting responsiveness. Regarding the responsiveness of the PROMIS-APS, only 7 out of 13 (53.8%) of these results were consistent with the hypotheses.
conclusionsThis study supported the construct validity and the responsiveness of the PROMIS-PF v1.2 short form 8b for measuring recovery in abdominal surgery. Considering the major advantages of PROMIS, we recommend the use of the PROMIS-PF in abdominal surgery.
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