Patient perspective: choosing or developing instruments.

Previous Outcome Measures in Rheumatology (OMERACT) meetings recognized that patients view outcomes of intervention from a different perspective. This preconference position paper briefly sets out 2 patient-reported outcome (PRO) instrument approaches, the PROMISE computer adaptive testing (CAT) sys...

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Publicado en:	Journal of Rheumatology Vol. 38; no. 8; pp. 1716 - 1720
Autores principales:	Kirwan, John R, Fries, James F, Hewlett, Sarah, Osborne, Richard H
Formato:	Journal Article
Publicado:	Journal of Rheumatology Publishing Co. Ltd. Aug2011
Acceso en línea:	Ver este registro en EBSCOhost

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Sumario:	Previous Outcome Measures in Rheumatology (OMERACT) meetings recognized that patients view outcomes of intervention from a different perspective. This preconference position paper briefly sets out 2 patient-reported outcome (PRO) instrument approaches, the PROMISE computer adaptive testing (CAT) system and development of a rheumatoid arthritis-specific questionnaire to measure fatigue; a tentative proposal for a PRO instrument development pathway is also made.