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Establishing a Common Metric for Physical Function: Linking the HAQ-DI and SF-36 PF Subscale to PROMIS(®) Physical Function.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Physical function (PF) is a common health concept measured in clinical trials and clinical care. It is measured with different instruments that are not directly comparable, making comparative effectiveness research (CER) challenging when PF is the outcome of interest.

Objective

Our goal was to establish a common reporting metric, so that scores on commonly used physical function measures can be converted into PROMIS scores.

Design

Following a single-sample linking design, all participants completed items from the NIH Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS®) Physical Function (PROMIS PF) item bank and at least one other commonly used "legacy" measure: the Health Assessment Questionnaire (HAQ) or the Short Form-36 physical function ten-item PF scale (SF-36 PF). A common metric was created using analyses based on item response theory (IRT), producing score cross-walk tables.

Participants

Participants (N?=?733) were part of an internet panel, many of whom reported one or more chronic health conditions.

Main measures

PROMIS PF, SF-36 PF, and the HAQ-Disability Index (HAQ-DI).

Results

Our results supported the hypothesis that all three scales measure essentially the same concept. Cross-walk tables for use in CER are therefore justified.

Conclusions

HAQ-DI and SF-36 PF results can be expressed on the PROMIS PF metric for the purposes of CER and other efforts to compare PF results across studies that utilize any one of these three measures. Clinicians seeking to incorporate PROs into their clinics can collect patient data on any one of these three instruments and estimate the equivalent on the other two.

SUBMITTER: Schalet BD

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4579209 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Establishing a Common Metric for Physical Function: Linking the HAQ-DI and SF-36 PF Subscale to PROMIS(®) Physical Function.

Schalet Benjamin D BD Revicki Dennis A DA Cook Karon F KF Krishnan Eswar E Fries Jim F JF Cella David D

Journal of general internal medicine 20151001 10

<h4>Background</h4>Physical function (PF) is a common health concept measured in clinical trials and clinical care. It is measured with different instruments that are not directly comparable, making comparative effectiveness research (CER) challenging when PF is the outcome of interest.<h4>Objective</h4>Our goal was to establish a common reporting metric, so that scores on commonly used physical function measures can be converted into PROMIS scores.<h4>Design</h4>Following a single-sample linkin ...[more]

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Establishing a Common Metric for Physical Function: Linking the HAQ-DI and SF-36 PF Subscale to PROMIS(®) Physical Function.

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Objective

Design

Participants

Main measures

Results

Conclusions

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