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ArticleJournal of patient-reported outcomes2026

The structural and moral integrity of our field.

Kevin Weinfurt

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Article in Journal of patient-reported outcomes, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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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

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Kevin WeinfurtDepartment of Population Health Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, USA. kevin.weinfurt@duke.edu.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This commentary consists of edited remarks made by the author upon receipt of the 2025 International Society for Quality of Life Research President’s Award. The field of health measurement/quality-of-life research is viewed as a house in which we have grown up and now live. We sometimes need to rework our foundation to maintain our field’s structural integrity—that is, the shared intellectual foundations that support our thinking in a changing world. To complement structural integrity, we need moral integrity—a shared commitment to working in ways that strengthen our science and our humanity. Monitoring and sustaining these two aspects of integrity are the responsibility of everyone.

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Biomedical ResearchMoralsQuality of LifeHumansArgument-based validityHealth measurementPatient-reported outcomesResearch integrityValidity

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PMID41961229
PMCPMC13069030

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