Users' Guides to the Medical Literature
Guyatt G, Rennie D, Meade MO, Cook DJ
Part B Therapy
Chapter 10.5. Measuring Patients' Experience
Toshi A. Furukawa, Roman Jaeschke, Deborah J. Cook, Gordon Guyatt
Finding the Evidence
Topics Discussed:
finding the evidence, health outcomes, health-related quality of life, incorporating patient values and preferences, measuring patient experience, patient evaluation, positive and negative syndrome scale
Excerpt:
"Definitively establishing a measurement instrument's
usefulness requires several studies. As a result, critically appraising
an HRQL measure requires a review of several articles.
A good first step is to identify the original report of the instrument,
where you will usually find a detailed description of the instrument
and initial data about its measurement properties. You enter "PANSS" in
PubMed, hit 858 articles, jump to the last page of the retrieved
studies, and identify the first reports of the PANSS.11,20 For
some well-established instruments, you may sometimes wish to purchase
a published manual, if the instrument is very important for many
of your patients. The manual for PANSS is available from Multi-Health
Systems, Inc. (https://www.mhs.com/ecom/(ck2jpcn4lciyioafxle32a55)/product.aspx?RptGrpID=PAN)...."
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