Patient-reported outcome measures in prostate research: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To summarise how patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) are used in prostate research, specifically in the 10 years after the 2010 CONsolidated Standards Of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) guidelines were introduced.

Methods

The search was focussed on randomised controlled trials (RCTs) reporting in the top 15 journals in oncology, urology, and medicine, during 2011-2020 and identified through PubMed®. For each article the following items were identified: the condition being treated, the intervention(s) of interest, the study design, the specific PROM(s) used, when they were included in the treatment pathway, how they were analysed, and whether methods to deal with multiplicity or missing data were considered.

Results

There were 361 potentially eligible artic

SUBMITTER: Young GJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12789852 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature