Identifying and appraising patient-reported outcome measures on treatment satisfaction in acne: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

After dermatitis, acne is the next skin disease to contribute most to the burden of skin diseases worldwide. Recently, seven core outcome domains have been identified, which together form an Acne Core Outcome Set (ACORN). One of these was satisfaction with acne treatment.

Objectives

To identify studies that described the development of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMS), evaluated one or more measurement properties of a PROM, or evaluated the interpretability of a PROM in patients with acne regarding treatment satisfaction.

Methods

The COnsensus-based Standards for the selection of health Measurement INstruments (COSMIN) search strategy for identifying PROMS on acne treatment satisfaction was used. We searched PubMed, MEDLINE, Embase, LILACS, Web of

SUBMITTER: van Zuuren EJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8359297 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature