Patient-reported outcome measures: it is time for authors, reviewers, journal editors and health care strategists to take sufficient responsibility.

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.

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.

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

1. The recovery trajectory of anterior cruciate ligament ruptures in randomised controlled trials: A systematic review and meta-analysis of operative and nonoperative treatments.Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2025
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2. A systematic review of patient-reported outcome measures for idiopathic adhesive capsulitis - recommendations based on analyses of 16 existing questionnaires.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2025
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3. Eighteen Years of Measuring Treatment Satisfaction in Clinical Research: A Scoping Review of Instruments and Contexts of Use.Patient preference and adherence · 2026
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4. Routine medical care for adults with musculoskeletal disorders in the Indigenous community of Pimicikamak, northern Manitoba before and after implementing the Global Spine Care Initiative model: a retrospective chart review with a 10-month post-implementation window: A collaborative research project between World Spine Care Canada (WSCC), Pimicikamack Okimawin, and Cross Lake Nursing Station.The Journal of the Canadian Chiropractic Association · 2025
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5. The structural validity of the Danish version of the Oxford Knee Score is not substantiated using Rasch analysis and confirmatory factor analysis.Bone & joint research · 2025
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6. Measurement properties of the Swedish version of the Knee Self-Efficacy Scale: A Rasch analysis.Journal of experimental orthopaedics · 2025
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7. The Use of Patient-Reported Outcomes in Clinical Practice: A National Survey of Hand Surgeons.Journal of hand surgery global online · 2025
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8. Mapping the reporting practices in recent randomised controlled trials published inJournal of experimental orthopaedics · 2025
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9. Do PROMs or Sensor-Based Monitoring Detect Improvements in Patients' Knee Function After Total-Knee Arthroplasty?-A Study Protocol for a Prospective Controlled Study.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
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10. The Significance of Selecting an Appropriate Patient-Reported Outcome Measure (PROM): A Cross-Cultural Adaptation of the Specific Paediatric International Documentation Committee Subjective (Pedi-IKDC) Knee Form.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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11. No difference in return to play rates between different elite sports after primary autograft ACL reconstruction.Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2023
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12. MCID and PASS in Knee Surgeries. Theoretical Aspects and Clinical Relevance References.Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2023
    Review

Corrections and comments

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Authors and funding

2 authors.

Funding

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Abstract

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