Linking Oswestry Disability Index to the PROMIS Pain Interference CAT with Equipercentile Methods

: When different health care providers use different patient-reported outcome (PRO) instruments, it is challenging to integrate findings that describe particular patient groups or to establish treatment effectiveness across studies. It is therefore critical to develop accurate ways to convert scores between various instruments for clinicians and researchers to make comparisons across health outcomes.

Source: The Spine Journal - February 18, 2021 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Xiaodan Tang, Benjamin D. Schalet, Man Hung, Darrel S. Brodke, Charles L. Saltzman, David Cella Tags: Clinical Study Source Type: research