Use of PROs in Primary Care: PROMIS or Disappointment?

Use of PROMIS for Patients Undergoing Primary Total Shoulder Arthroplasty

BACKGROUND The Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) consists of question banks for health domains through computer adaptive testing (CAT). HYPOTHESIS For patients with glenohumeral arthritis, (1) there would be high correlation between traditional patient-reported outcome (PRO) measures and the PROMIS upper extremity item bank (PROMIS UE) and PROMIS physical funct...

Mutual Learning or Mutual Disappointment

Featured Pearl PROS PEARLS PROS Child Abuse Reporting Experience Study (CARES) To Report or Not Report: Examination of the Initial Primary Care Management of Suspicious Childhood Injuries

OBJECTIVE: This study examined the validity of primary health care providers’ (PHCPs) assessment of suspicion that an injury was caused by child abuse and their decision to report suspected child abuse to child protective services (CPS). METHODS: By using a subsample of injuries drawn from the 15,003 childhood injuries evaluated in the Child Abuse Recognition and Evaluation Study, PHCPs complet...

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From PROMIS to PRO-MRI in primary prostate cancer

tau.amegroups.com © Translational Andrology and Urology. All rights reserved. In the emerging field of MRI in prostate cancer (PCa) diagnosis, it has become clear that targeted biopsy with MRI guidance has additional value over systematic transrectal ultrasound-guided biopsies (TRUS-Bx) alone. The targeted biopsy approach driven by a positive MRI increases the diagnostic yield of high-grade [Gl...