The broad concept of patient reported outcome measures (PROM) includes measurements reported by those who have a disease. These cover a spectrum that ranges from evaluating symptoms, adherence to treatment, functional capacity, health status and quality of life to quality of care aspects.1 In the mid 1970s a movement began to include the perspective of the patient as part of the necessary asses...

OBJECTIVE To provide an independent monitoring report examining the ongoing impact of Australian self-regulatory pledges on food and drink advertising to children on commercial television. DESIGN Analysis of food advertisements across comparable sample time periods in April/May 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010 and 2011. The main outcome measure comprised change in the mean rate of non-core food adverti...

Background There is no current consensus within the anaesthetic and perioperative research community on what outcomes are important, nor how to measure them. This leads to heterogeneity of outcome reporting in randomised controlled trials (RCTs), and selective outcome reporting – i.e. a bias towards reporting only statistically significant outcomes [1]. Here we describe an initiative to develop...

OBJECTIVE To expand on a previous systematic review of shoulder-specific outcome measures by investigating how concepts of functioning were conceptualized and measured, using International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) constructs as a reference. METHODS The material consisted of the linked content of 17 condition-specific measures. The distribution of the key conc...

The primary outcome measure is the outcome that an investigator considers to be the most important among the many outcomes that are to be examined in the study. The primary outcome needs to be defined at the time the study is designed. There are 2 reasons for this: it reduces the risk of false-positive errors resulting from the statistical testing of many outcomes, and it reduces the risk of a ...

1Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, 35 Centerra Parkway, Suite 300, Lebanon, NH 03766, USA; 2Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health, Lebanon, NH, USA ; 3 Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden ; 4Rare Diseases Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden ; 5Genia, Stockholm, Sweden ; 6Hansen Law, Stockho...

OBJECTIVE To investigate which of three virtual training methods produces the largest learning effects on discrete and continuous myocontrol. The secondary objective was to examine the relation between myocontrol and manual motor control tests. DESIGN A cohort analytic study. SETTING University laboratory. PARTICIPANTS 3 groups of 12 able-bodied participants (N = 36). INTERVENTIONS Part...

OBJECTIVE The increasing number of veterans with complex health conditions accessing rehabilitation leads to the need for an outcome measure that identifies success in areas beyond return to work. The current study was designed to assess the feasibility of goal attainment scaling as a routine measure of outcomes of rehabilitation. METHODS Fifteen organisations contracted by the Australian Dep...