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• Common Metrics
• DEPRESSD
• PROMIS Profile 29 Reference Scores
• PRO-B
• Common metrics score calculator
• German PROMIS National Center
• PROMIS Physical Function, Upper Extremity and Pain Interference Reference Scores for the elderly (50+)
• DKPM AG Klinische Psychodiagnostik und Psychometrie
• Presentation: DKG 2022
• Making use of IRT in the assessment of change
• Measuring individual true change with PROMIS using IRT-based plausible values
• Visiting Prague
• Are OMERACT recommendations followed in clinical trials on fibromyalgia? A systematic review of patient-reported outcomes and their measures
• New publications: Health Utility validation and Outcomes review in Fibromyalgia
• Health State Utility differed systematically in breast cancer patients between the EORTC QLU-C10D and the PROMIS Preference Score (PROPr)
• 8th Conference of the International Association for Computerized Adaptive Testing
• Conference contributions from 2021
• The Oxford-Berlin partnership for enhancing measurement in clinical trials
• Recommendations for empowering early career researchers to improve research culture and practice
• Recommendations for empowering early career researchers to improve research culture and practice
• Alizé Rogge and Gregor Liegl are SPOKES Fellows
• Conrad Harrison visits Patient Centered Outcomes Group
• New publication: Frequently Used Patient-Reported Outcome (PRO) Measures of General Physical Function Were Highly Correlated With a Multi-Task Performance Outcome (PerfO) Test Battery
• LaufPROfis finish 5x5 Teamstaffel in 2:22:58
• Alimertcan Köse visits Patient Centered Outcomes Group
• Alexander Obbarius was selected as BIH Digital Clinician Scientist
• Webinar: Measurement Invariance with Categorical Indicators
• Update 2022
• Real-world reference scores for EORTC QLQ-C30 and EORTC QLQ-BR23 in early breast cancer patients
• Comparison of the PROMIS Preference Score (PROPr) and EQ-5D-5L Index Value in General Population Samples in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany
• External validation of a shortened screening tool using individual participant data meta-analysis: A case study of the Patient Health Questionnaire-Dep-4
• PHQ-8 scores and estimation of depression prevalence
• PRO B: evaluating the effect of an alarm-based patient-reported outcome monitoring compared with usual care in metastatic breast cancer patients—study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
• Conference contributions in Fall 2021
• Webinar: Scoring of IRT based PROs
• DEPRESSD Webinar - Addressing overestimation of prevalence based on self-report questionnaires: Are there cost-effective alternatives?
• HARMONY training schools
• Presentation: Von der Herausforderung, individuelle Veränderungen der Lebensqualität zu erfassen
• New Publication: Achieving reliable pain change scores for individuals in the postoperative phase carefully choose sampling density, test length, and administration mode
• New Publication: Building a Value-Based Care Infrastructure in Europe: The Health Outcomes Observatory
• DEPRESSD Webinar - Addressing overestimation of prevalence based on self-report questionnaires: Are there cost-effective alternatives?
• More flexible response functions for the PROMIS physical functioning item bank by application of a monotonic polynomial approach
• New publication: More flexible response functions for the PROMIS physical functioning item bank by application of a monotonic polynomial approach
• Webinar: Scoring of PROs using IRT
• Implementation of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) worldwide
• Common measures initiative in mental health research
• Congrats to Dr. Nina Obbarius
• A modified version of the Transactional Stress Concept according to Lazarus and Folkman was confirmed in a psychosomatic inpatient sample
• New publication: PPV and NPV for continous and ordinal tests
• Using Bayes theorem to estimate positive and negative predictive values for continuously and ordinally scaled diagnostic tests
• New publication: Latent variable scoring of the PHQ-9
• Data: PROMIS Profile 29 general population data published
• Comparison of different scoring methods based on latent variable models of the PHQ-9: an individual participant data meta-analysis
• Webinar: Assessment of PROs using IRT
• Conference contribution: Monotonic polynomials to model flexible item response curves
• Looking back to 2020
• Predicting EQ-5D-5L crosswalk from the PROMIS-29 profile for the United Kingdom, France, and Germany
• Webinar: Assessment of PROs using IRT
• New publication: Linking the PROMIS Profile 29 to the EQ-5D
• Applying Item Response Theory to the OPD Structure Questionnaire: Identification of a Unidimensional Core Construct and Feasibility of Computer Adaptive Testing
• A common metric for self-reported severity of personality disorders
• Accuracy of the PHQ-2 Alone and in Combination with the PHQ-9 for Screening to Detect Major Depression: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
• Equivalency of the diagnostic accuracy of the PHQ-8 and PHQ-9: a systematic review and individual participant data meta-analysis
• A Step Towards a Better Understanding of Pain Phenotypes: Latent Class Analysis in Chronic Pain Patients Receiving Multimodal Inpatient Treatment
• Patient Health Questionnaire-9 scores do not accurately estimate depression prevalence: individual participant data meta-analysis
• Probability of major depression diagnostic classification based on the SCID, CIDI and MINI diagnostic interviews controlling for Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale – Depression subscale scores: An individual participant data meta-analysis of 73 primary
• Trajectories of Health-Related Quality of Life and HbA1c Values of Children and Adolescents With Diabetes Mellitus Type 1 Over 6 Months: A Longitudinal Observational Study
• Using subdomain-specific item sets affected PROMIS physical function scores differently in cardiology and rheumatology patients
• The Accuracy of the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) Algorithm for Screening to Detect Major Depression: An Individual Participant Data Meta-analysis
• Comparison of different scoring methods based on latent variable models of the PHQ-9 : protocol for an individual participant data meta-analysis
• Evaluation of a blended-learning training concept to train oncology physicians to advise their patients about complementary and integrative medicine (KOKON-KTO): study protocol for a prospective, multi-center, cluster-randomized trial
• Evaluation of Factor Structure and Construct Validity of the 12-Item Short Version of the OPD Structure Questionnaire (OPD-SQS) in Psychosomatic Patients
• Exact replication: Foundation of science or game of chance?
• Lebensqualität als Zielparameter in der onkologischen Forschung und Praxis
• Measuring fatigue in cancer patients: a common metric for six fatigue instruments
• Outcomes and outcome measures used in evaluation of communication training in oncology – a systematic literature review, an expert workshop, and recommendations for future research
• Reviving the Clinician Scientist: A Best Practice Model
• Scoring Depression on a Common Metric: A Comparison of EAP Estimation, Plausible Value Imputation, and Full Bayesian IRT Modeling
• Validity of instrument-independent depression metrics – protocol for a meta-study
• A 67-Item Stress Resilience item bank showing high content validity was developed in a psychosomatic sample
• Addressing Unmet Information Needs: Results of a Clinician-Led Consultation Service About Complementary and Alternative Medicine for Cancer Patients and Their Relatives
• An initial psychometric evaluation of the German PROMIS v1.2 Physical Function item bank in patients with a wide range of health conditions
• Comparison of the Factor Structure of the Patient Health Questionnaire for Somatic Symptoms (PHQ-15) in China. A Transcultural Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) Study
• Empirische Erfassung subjektiver Gesundheitsmerkmale am Beispiel der gesundheitsbezogenen Lebensqualität
• Illness Perception of Patients with Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders
• Measurement invariance and general population reference values of the PROMIS Profile 29 in the UK, France and Germany
• Probability of major depression diagnostic classification using semi-structured versus fully structured diagnostic interviews
• Short-term UVB irradiation significantly increases vitamin D serum concentration in obese patients: a clinical pilot study
• Varying the item format improved the range of measurement in patient-reported outcome measures assessing physical function
• www.common-metrics.org: a web application to estimate scores from different patient-reported outcome measures on a common scale
• Course of self-reported symptoms of 342 outpatients receiving medium- versus long-term psychodynamic psychotherapy
• Language-related Differential Item Functioning between English and German PROMIS Depression Items is negligible
• On the validity of measuring change over time in routine clinical assessment: a close examination of item-level response shifts in psychosomatic inpatients
• Subcortical brain alterations in major depressive disorder: findings from the ENIGMA Major Depressive Disorder working group
• The validation of a computer-adaptive test (CAT) for assessing health-related quality of life in children and adolescents in a clinical sample: study design , methods and first results of the Kids-CAT study
• A new Computerized Adaptive Test advancing the measurement of Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) in children: The Kids-CAT
• Effect of time and duration of untreated psychosis on cognitive and social functioning in Chinese patients with first-episode schizophrenia: A 1-year study
• Pregnancy in multiple sclerosis: a questionnaire study.
• Screening for mental disorders in heart failure patients using computer-adaptive tests
• Standardization of depression measurement: a common metric was developed for 11 self-report depression measures
• The novel 10-item asthma prediction tool: external validation in the german MAS birth cohort.
• Validation of patient health questionnaire (PHQ) for major depression in Chinese Outpatients with multiple somatic Symptoms: A multicenter cross-sectional study
• Kostenevaluation eines Modells der Integrierten Versorgung für schwer psychisch Kranke
• The Effect of Attending Steiner Schools during Childhood on Health in Adulthood: A Multicentre Cross-Sectional Study
• Computerized adaptive testing--ready for ambulatory monitoring?
• Impact of cross-calibration methods on the interpretation of a treatment comparison study using 2 depression scales.
• How to compare scores from different depression scales: equating the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ) and the ICD-10-Symptom Rating (ISR) using Item Response Theory
• Factor structure and psychometric properties of the ICD-10-Symptom-Rating (ISR) in samples of psychosomatic patients.
• Das ICD-10-Symptom-Rating (ISR): Zusammenhänge mit der SCL-90-R
• Development and Factorial Validation of a Short Version of the Narcissism Inventory (NI-20)