| Publications [#134983] of Kevin P. Weinfurt
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- KP Weinfurt, SM Trucco, RJ Willke, KA Schulman (2002). Measuring agreement between patient and proxy responses to multidimensional health-related quality-of-life measures in clinical trials. An application of psychometric profile analysis.. Journal of clinical epidemiology, 55(6), 608-18.
(last updated on 2013/05/16)
Abstract: When patients cannot provide responses to health-related quality-of-life (HRQOL) measures in clinical trials, family or friends may be asked to respond. We present a simple, comprehensive method for assessing agreement between patients with head injury and their proxy responders. In contrast to more traditional approaches, this method defines agreement separately for each patient-proxy pair, and compares HRQOL profiles along three dimensions-level, or the average of the ratings; scatter, or the variability in the ratings; and shape, or the ranks of the ratings. We demonstrate this method in the context of a clinical trial of a treatment for traumatic head injury and compare the results to those obtained using traditional analyses. Options for incorporating proxy responses into clinical trial analyses are discussed.
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