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ArticleQuality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation2019

Towards standardized patient reported physical function outcome reporting: linking ten commonly used questionnaires to a common metric.

M A H Oude Voshaar, H E Vonkeman, D Courvoisier, A Finckh, L Gossec, Y Y Leung, K Michaud, G Pinheiro, E Soriano, N Wulfraat and 2 more

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Article in Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. The patient-reported outcomes measurement information systems (PROMIS®) physical function and its derivative measures in adults: a systematic review of content validity.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2022
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  2. Differential item functioning between English, German, and Spanish PROMIS® physical function ceiling items.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2025
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M A H Oude VoshaarDepartment of Psychology, Health and Technology, University of Twente, PO BOX 50 000, 7500 KA, Enschede, The Netherlands. A.H.Oudevoshaar@utwente.nl.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2438-9973
H E VonkemanDepartment of Psychology, Health and Technology, University of Twente, PO BOX 50 000, 7500 KA, Enschede, The Netherlands.
D CourvoisierDivision of Rheumatology, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
A FinckhDivision of Rheumatology, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
L GossecUPMC Univ Paris 06, GRC-UPMC 08, Paris, France.
Y Y LeungDepartment of Rheumatology and Immunology, Singapore General Hosptial, Singapore, Singapore.
K MichaudThe National Databank for Rheumatic Diseases, Wichita, KS and University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA.
G PinheiroDiscipline of Rheumatology, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
E SorianoRheumatology Unit, Internal Medical Services, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, and Instituto Universitario Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
N WulfraatWilhelmina Children's Hospital, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
A ZinkGerman Rheumatism Research Centre, Epidemiology Unit, and Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Charité University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
M A F J van de LaarDepartment of Psychology, Health and Technology, University of Twente, PO BOX 50 000, 7500 KA, Enschede, The Netherlands.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivesOutcomes obtained using different physical function patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) are difficult to compare. To facilitate standardization of physical function outcome measurement and reporting we developed an item response theory (IRT) based standardized physical function score metric for ten commonly used physical function PROMs.

methodsData of a total of 16,386 respondents from representative cohorts of patients with rheumatic diseases as well as the Dutch general population were used to map the items of ten commonly used physical function PROMs on a continuous latent physical function variable. The resulting IRT based common metric was cross-validated in an independent dataset of 243 patients with gout, osteoarthritis or polymyalgia in which four of the linked PROMs were administered.

resultsOur analyses supported that all 97 items of the ten included PROMs relate to a single underlying physical function variable and that responses to each item could be described by the generalized partial credit IRT model. In the cross-validation analyses we found congruent mean scores for four different PROMs when the IRT based scoring procedures were used.

conclusionsWe showed that the standardized physical function score metric developed in this study can be used to facilitate standardized reporting of physical function outcomes for ten commonly used make physical function PROMs.

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Patient Reported Outcome MeasuresEthnicityFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedOsteoarthritisOutcome Assessment, Health CareQuality of LifeResearch DesignRheumatic DiseasesSurveys and QuestionnairesCommon metricItem bankItem response theoryPatient reported outcomesPhysical function

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