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Reliability and Feasibility of the Self-Administered ISTH-Bleeding Assessment Tool.


ABSTRACT: Introduction ?Standardized bleeding assessment tools (BATs), such as the International Society for Thrombosis and Hemostasis (ISTH)-BAT, are screening instruments used during the diagnostic workup of suspected bleeding disorders. A self-administered ISTH-BAT (self-BAT) would enhance screening and save time during an outpatient clinic visit. Aim ?This study was aimed to investigate the reliability and feasibility of the self-BAT. Methods ?The electronic self-BAT was created from the ISTH-BAT and paper-version of self-BAT and optimized by patients and physicians. Patients with a (suspected) congenital platelet defect (CPD), who had previously undergone physician-administered ISTH-BAT assessment, were invited to complete the self-BAT. Optimal self-BAT cut-off values to detect a bleeding tendency, as defined by the ISTH-BAT, were evaluated by receiver operator characteristic (ROC) curve analysis to reach a sensitivity ?95%. Reliability was tested by assessing sensitivity, specificity, and intraclass correlation (ICC). Feasibility was evaluated on comprehension and length of self-BAT. Results ?Both versions of the BAT were completed by 156 patients. Optimal cut-off values for self-BAT to define a bleeding tendency were found to be identical to those of the ISTH-BAT. Normal/abnormal scores of the ISTH-BAT and self-BAT were agreed in 88.5% (138/156, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.83-0.93) of patients. The sensitivity and specificity of the self-BAT to detect a bleeding tendency were 96.9 and 48.1%, respectively. The ICC was 0.73. Self-BAT questions were graded by 96.8% (151/156) as "very easy," "easy," and "satisfactory" and questionnaire length as "exactly right" by 91% (142/156) of patients. Conclusion ?In patients with a (suspected) CPD, the self-BAT is sufficiently reliable and feasible to detect a bleeding tendency, which supports its use as a screening tool.

SUBMITTER: Punt MC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6884422 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Reliability and Feasibility of the Self-Administered ISTH-Bleeding Assessment Tool.

Punt Marieke C MC   Blaauwgeers Maaike W MW   Timmer Merel A MA   Welsing Paco M J PMJ   Schutgens Roger E G REG   van Galen Karin P M KPM  

TH open : companion journal to thrombosis and haemostasis 20191001 4


<b>Introduction</b>  Standardized bleeding assessment tools (BATs), such as the International Society for Thrombosis and Hemostasis (ISTH)-BAT, are screening instruments used during the diagnostic workup of suspected bleeding disorders. A self-administered ISTH-BAT (self-BAT) would enhance screening and save time during an outpatient clinic visit. <b>Aim</b>  This study was aimed to investigate the reliability and feasibility of the self-BAT. <b>Methods</b>  The electronic self-BAT was created f  ...[more]

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