Setting and maintaining standards for patient-reported outcome measures: can we rely on the COSMIN checklists?

Setting the Agenda for Patient-centered Care: Incorporation of Patient-reported Outcome Measures

Careyva BA1,2*, Singh J3, Goldberg A1,2, Johnson M1 and Stello B1 1Department of Family Medicine, Allentown, PA, USA 2Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA 3Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA *Corresponding author: Beth A Careyva, MD, Department of Family Medicine, Lehigh Valley Health Network, 707 Hamilton St., 8th Floor, P.O. Box 1806, Allentown, PA ...

Can we Rely on SQL?

It is important for any data language that it enables many people to derive correct information from a databases in a simple, effective way with predictable performance. In an analysis is shown that SQL cannot fulfill these essential preconditions. It is caused by insufficient structural semantics of the relational model and the related operations in SQL. This follows from a comparison with res...

Patient-Reported Outcomes (PROs) and Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs)

In recent years, there has been an increased focus on placing patients at the center of health care research and evaluating clinical care in order to improve their experience and ensure that research is both robust and of maximum value for the use of medicinal products, therapy, or health services. This paper provides an overview of patients' involvement in clinical research and service evaluat...

Can we rely on suicide mortality data?

Correlation of Single Assessment Numeric Evaluation (SANE) with other Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs)

Background: The Single Assessment Numeric Evaluation (SANE) is a simple, one-question patient-reported outcomemeasure (PROM). We systematically reviewed correlations between SANE and more extensive PROMs.Methods: We identified studies with correlation coefficients between SANE and other shoulder, knee, and anklespecificPROMs. We calculated mean, median and range across studies...