Agreement About Identifying Patients Who Change Over Time: Cautionary Results in Cataract and Heart Failure Patients

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• Alternative Title:
  Med Decis Making
• Personal Author:
  Feeny, David ; Spritzer, Karen ; Hays, Ron D ; Liu, Honghu ; Ganiats, Theodore G. ; Kaplan, Robert M. ; Palta, Mari ; Fryback, Dennis G.
• Description:
  Background
  
  Preference-based measures of health-related quality of life all use the same dead = 0.00 to perfect health = 1.00 scale, but there are substantial differences among measures.
  
  Objective
  
  The objective is to examine agreement in classifying patients as better, stable, or worse.
  
  Design
  
  The EQ-5D, Health Utilities Index Mark 2 and Mark 3, Quality of Well-Being – Self-Administered, Short-Form 36 (Short-Form 6D), and disease-targeted measures were administered prospectively in two clinical cohorts.
  
  Setting
  
  The study was conducted at academic medical centers: University of California, Los Angeles; University of California, San Diego; University of Wisconsin-Madison; and University of Southern California.
  
  Patients
  
  Patients undergoing cataract extraction surgery with lens replacement completed the 25-item National Eye Institute Visual Function Questionnaire (NEI-VFQ-25). Patients newly refereed to congestive heart failure specialty clinics completed the Minnesota Living with Heart Failure Questionnaire (MLHF).
  
  Measurements
  
  In both cohorts subjects completed surveys at baseline, one and six months. The NEI-VFQ-25 and MLHF were used as gold standards to assign patients to categories of change. Agreement was assessed using kappa.
  
  Results
  
  376 cataract patients were recruited. Complete data for baseline and the one-month follow-up were available on all measures for 210 cases. Using criteria specified by Altman, agreement was poor for six of nine pairs of comparisons and fair for three pairs. 160 heart failure patients were recruited. Complete data for baseline and the six-month follow-up were available for 86 cases. Agreement was negligible for five pairs and fair for one.
  
  Limitations
  
  The study was conducted on selected patients at a few academic medical centers.
  
  Conclusions
  
  The results underscore the lack of interchangeability among different preference-based measures.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Academic Medical Centers Activities Of Daily Living Adult Aged Article Female Follow-Up Studies Health Surveys Heart Failure Humans Lenses, Intraocular Male Middle Aged Patient Satisfaction Psychometrics Quality Of Life Reproducibility Of Results Surveys And Questionnaires Treatment Outcome

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• Source:
  Med Decis Making. 32(2):273-286.
• Pubmed ID:
  22009666
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC3749910
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  P30AG021684/AG/NIA NIH HHS/United States ; P01 AG020679/AG/NIA NIH HHS/United States ; U48 DP000056/DP/NCCDPHP CDC HHS/United States ; 1 P01 AG020679-01A2/AG/NIA NIH HHS/United States ; U48 DP000056-04/DP/NCCDPHP CDC HHS/United States ; 5P30AG028748/AG/NIA NIH HHS/United States ; P20 MD000182/MD/NIMHD NIH HHS/United States ; P01AG020679/AG/NIA NIH HHS/United States ; P20MD000182/MD/NIMHD NIH HHS/United States ; P30 AG021684/AG/NIA NIH HHS/United States ; P20 MD000148/MD/NIMHD NIH HHS/United States ; P30 AG028748/AG/NIA NIH HHS/United States ; P20MD000148/MD/NIMHD NIH HHS/United States
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Volume:
  32
• Issue:
  2
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:1338fc03d234db4971f887ce678c369425e01eb502e124878534e1604c9ba280
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/33616/cdc_33616_DS1.pdf
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