The Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) developed and tested its first wave of adult self-reported health outcome item banks: 2005–2008

• Published in: Journal of clinical epidemiology Vol. 63; no. 11; pp. 1179 - 1194
• Main Authors: Cella, David, Riley, William, Stone, Arthur, Rothrock, Nan, Reeve, Bryce, Yount, Susan, Amtmann, Dagmar, Bode, Rita, Buysse, Daniel, Choi, Seung, Cook, Karon, DeVellis, Robert, DeWalt, Darren, Fries, James F, Gershon, Richard, Hahn, Elizabeth A, Lai, Jin-Shei, Pilkonis, Paul, Revicki, Dennis, Rose, Matthias, Weinfurt, Kevin, Hays, Ron
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY Elsevier Inc 01.11.2010; Elsevier; Elsevier Limited
• Subjects: Adult; Anxiety; Biological and medical sciences; Chronic disease; Clinical outcomes; Epidemiology; Fatigue; Female; Global health; Health Status; Health Surveys; Humans; Information systems; Information Systems - standards; Internal Medicine; Item response theory; Male; Medical sciences; Miscellaneous; Outcome Assessment (Health Care) - standards; Outcome measures; Pain; Patient Satisfaction - statistics & numerical data; Patient-reported outcomes; PROMIS; Public health. Hygiene; Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine; Quality of Life; Self Disclosure; Sleep; Surveys and Questionnaires - standards; United States; United States; Outcome measures; Patient-reported outcomes; Chronic disease; Item response theory; PROMIS; Quality of life; Human; Prognosis; Information system; Self evaluation; Theory; Patient; 2008; Chronic; 2005; Adult; Item bank; Public health

Abstract Objectives Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) are essential when evaluating many new treatments in health care; yet, current measures have been limited by a lack of precision, standardization, and comparability of scores across studies and diseases. The Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement I...