Measuring patient outcomes: A primer

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• 作者：Dianne Bryant^a ; ^{dianne.bryant@uwo.ca} ; Natasha Fernandes^b
• 关键词：Outcomes ; Health ; Measurement ; Patient-reported outcomes ; PROs ; Quality of life
• 刊名：Injury
• 出版年：2011
• 出版时间：March 2011
• 年：2011
• 卷：42
• 期：3
• 页码：232-235
• 全文大小：92 K

文摘

When designing a study, it is important to select appropriate instruments to measure health outcomes. An investigator must have a comprehensive understanding of the disease and its effects on patient health to inform instrument selection. We provide a brief introduction of different ways that health is defined and the properties of a good measurement tool (reliability, validity, sensitivity to change). We describe patient-reported outcomes (PROs) and methods to improve their interpretability, and we include strategies to reduce bias in health measurement and considerations that may improve the feasibility of measuring outcomes in a research study.