Physical function metric over measure: An illustration with the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) and the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy (FACT).

ABSTRACT:

Background

Measuring patient-reported outcomes (PROs) is becoming an integral component of quality improvement initiatives, clinical care, and research studies in cancer, including comparative effectiveness research. However, the number of PROs limits comparability across studies. Herein, the authors attempted to link the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-General Physical Well-Being (FACT-G PWB) subscale with the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) Physical Function (PF) calibrated item bank. The also sought to augment a subset of the conceptually most similar FACT-G PWB items with PROMIS PF items to improve the linking.

Methods

Baseline data from 5506 participants in the Measuring Your Health (MY-Health) study were used to identify the op

SUBMITTER: Kaat AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5734956 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature