TitlePsychometric evaluation and calibration of health-related quality of life item banks: plans for the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS)
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2007
AuthorsReeve, BB, Hays, RD, Bjorner, JB, Cook, KF, Crane, PK, Teresi, JA, Thissen, D, Revicki, DA, Weiss, DJ, Hambleton, RK, Liu, H, Gershon, RC, Reise, SP, Lai, JS, Cella, D
JournalMedical Care
Volume45
Edition2007/04/20
Number5 Suppl 1
PaginationS22-31
Date PublishedMay
Publication Languageeng
ISBN Number0025-7079 (Print)
Accession Number17443115
Keywords*Health Status, *Information Systems, *Quality of Life, *Self Disclosure, Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Calibration, Databases as Topic, Evaluation Studies as Topic, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Outcome Assessment (Health Care)/*methods, Psychometrics, Questionnaires/standards, United States
Abstract

BACKGROUND: The construction and evaluation of item banks to measure unidimensional constructs of health-related quality of life (HRQOL) is a fundamental objective of the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) project. OBJECTIVES: Item banks will be used as the foundation for developing short-form instruments and enabling computerized adaptive testing. The PROMIS Steering Committee selected 5 HRQOL domains for initial focus: physical functioning, fatigue, pain, emotional distress, and social role participation. This report provides an overview of the methods used in the PROMIS item analyses and proposed calibration of item banks. ANALYSES: Analyses include evaluation of data quality (eg, logic and range checking, spread of response distribution within an item), descriptive statistics (eg, frequencies, means), item response theory model assumptions (unidimensionality, local independence, monotonicity), model fit, differential item functioning, and item calibration for banking. RECOMMENDATIONS: Summarized are key analytic issues; recommendations are provided for future evaluations of item banks in HRQOL assessment.