| Measuring symptoms in localized prostate cancer: a systematic review of assessment instruments. | |
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PMID: 23381695 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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It is critical for prostate cancer researchers and clinicians to have access to comprehensive, sensitive and simple-to-use symptom measures that allow them to understand and quantify the subjective patient experience. The purpose of the current review is to provide a comprehensive review, detailed tool descriptions and objectively defined quality criteria to facilitate tool choices for patients with localized prostate cancer. Using a systematic web-based literature search, we found n=29 prostate symptom measures described in n=35 validation studies. To be recommended, tools needed to meet four criteria: broad domain coverage, ability to differentiate objective and subjective experience, good internal consistency and validation in at least two populations and/or having achieved two types of validations. Of the 29 tools reviewed, n=7 meet our criteria for recommendation, and three in particular (the EPIC-26 (Expanded Prostate Cancer Index Composite)-26, PC-QOL (Prostate Cancer-Quality of Life) and the UCLA-PCI (UCLA Prostate Cancer Index)) showed the strongest psychometrics. There is a reasonable number of measures to choose from that meet criteria for good psychometrics.Prostate Cancer and Prostatic Disease advance online publication, 5 February 2013; doi:10.1038/pcan.2013.1. |
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K Rnic; W Linden; I Tudor; R Pullmer; A Vodermaier |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2013-2-05 |
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Title: Prostate cancer and prostatic diseases Volume: - ISSN: 1476-5608 ISO Abbreviation: Prostate Cancer Prostatic Dis. Publication Date: 2013 Feb |
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Created Date: 2013-2-5 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 9815755 Medline TA: Prostate Cancer Prostatic Dis Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. |
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