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ReviewESMO open2020

Sex-specific and gender-specific aspects in patient-reported outcomes.

Caroline Hertler, Annina Seiler, Dorothee Gramatzki, Markus Schettle, David Blum

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Review in ESMO open, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

28 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Caroline HertlerDepartment of Radiation Oncology and Competence Center for Palliative Care, University Hospital Zurich and University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. Electronic address: caroline.hertler@usz.ch.
Annina SeilerDepartment of Radiation Oncology and Competence Center for Palliative Care, University Hospital Zurich and University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; Department of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine, University Hospital Zurich and University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Dorothee GramatzkiDepartment of Neurology, University Hospital Zurich and University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Markus SchettleDepartment of Radiation Oncology and Competence Center for Palliative Care, University Hospital Zurich and University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
David BlumDepartment of Radiation Oncology and Competence Center for Palliative Care, University Hospital Zurich and University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) are important tools in patient-centred medicine and allow for individual assessment of symptom burden and aspects of patients' quality of life. While sex and gender differences have emerged in preclinical and clinical medicine, these differences are not adequately represented in the development and use of patient-reported outcome measures. However, even in personalised approaches, undesirable biases may occur when samples are unbalanced for certain characteristics, such as sex or gender. This review summarises the current status of the literature and trends in PROs with a focus on sex and gender aspects.

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Patient Reported Outcome MeasuresQuality of LifeFemaleHumansMaleSex Factorsgenderpatient-reported outcomequality of lifesexsymptom

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PMID33184099
PMCPMC7662538

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