Development and Validation of Crosswalks for Patient-reported Sexual and Urinary Outcomes Between Commonly Used Instruments.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) have become widely adopted in the care of patients with prostate cancer, but there is no validated crosswalk between two commonly used instruments, the Expanded Prostate Cancer Index Composite Short Form (EPIC-26) and the Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) instrument, which consists of the International Index of Erectile Function-6 (IIEF-6) questionnaire and the MSK radical prostatectomy urinary outcome scale. OBJECTIVE:To develop and validate bidirectional crosswalks between the sexual and urinary domains (single domain in MSK, separate incontinence and irritative/obstructive domains in EPIC-26) of the MSK and EPIC-26 instruments. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS:Radical prostatectomy (RP) patients completing instruments at MSK and Michiga

SUBMITTER: Singh K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6584627 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature