Using Patient-reported Outcome Measures for Screening

Kathleen Yost, PhDDepartment of Quantitative Health Sciences, Mayo Clinic, Theresa Coles, PhDDepartment of Population Health Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) are often used in clinical practice and in research to...

Quality of Life Research in Health and Medicine

An article titled “A systematic review of quality of life research in medicine and health sciences,” published in 2019 in the ISOQOL-affiliated journal Quality of Life Research, was one of the journal’s most cited and most downloaded papers in 2021. The study...

The quality of life of older people living with frailty

Tom Crocker, PhDAcademic Unit for Ageing and Stroke Research, Bradford Institute for Health Research Frailty in older people is a vulnerability to major declines in health, such as loss of independence, caused by apparently minor events, such as a bladder infection....

A clarification of the concept of Minimal Important Change (MIC)

Caroline B. Terwee, PhDDepartment of Epidemiology and Data Science, Amsterdam Public Health research institute, Amsterdam UMC Interpretation of change scores of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) is important to facilitate their use in research and clinical...

Determining the most important research topics for dementia care

Carole White, PhDUT Health San Antonio Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias are irreversible conditions for which there are currently no curative treatments. As dementia progresses, families take on increasing levels of care to support their family member living...