Health status instruments should satisfy full range of methodological criteria

Health status instruments / utilities.

Rheumatologists and other interested professionals at the OMERACT II conference formed small groups to discuss whether it was sensible to use a generic health status instrument in musculoskeletal disease trials. These instruments promise the possibility of comparison of health status between disease states. However, data is lacking on validity of the current generation of instruments to support...

Do All Integrable Equations Satisfy Integrability Criteria?

1 Laboratoire Imagerie et Modélisation en Neurobiologie et Cancérologie (IMNC), CNRS UMR 8165, Université Paris VII-Paris XI, Bâtiment 104, 91406 Orsay, France 2 Centre de Physique Théorique, École Polytechnique, CNRS, 91128 Palaiseau, France 3Department of Mathematics, Pondicherry University, Kalapet, Puducherry 605014, India 4Department of Mathematics, Kanchi Mamunivar Centre for Postgraduate...

Instruments for Assessing Risk of Bias and Other Methodological Criteria: Krauth et al. Respond

Criteria list for assessment of methodological quality of economic evaluations: Consensus on Health Economic Criteria.

OBJECTIVES The aim of the Consensus on Health Economic Criteria (CHEC) project is to develop a criteria list for assessment of the methodological quality of economic evaluations in systematic reviews. The criteria list resulting from this CHEC project should be regarded as a minimum standard. METHODS The criteria list has been developed using a Delphi method. Three Delphi rounds were needed t...

How should importance and severity ratings be combined for item reduction in the development of health status instruments?

Patients' ratings of the severity and importance of items are often used to select items for health status instruments. The purpose of this study was to compare six different methods of combining severity-importance ratings. Two different patient groups separately rated the importance and severity of their complaints; (i) 76 patients with upper-extremity disorders rated 70 upper-extremity-relat...