Table 1

Search strategy

SearchFilterQuery
#6Exclusion filter#5 NOT (‘addresses’[Publication Type] OR ‘biography’[Publication Type] OR ‘case reports’[Publication Type] OR ‘comment’[Publication Type] OR ‘directory’[Publication Type] OR ‘editorial’[Publication Type] OR ‘festschrift’[Publication Type] OR ‘interview’[Publication Type] OR ‘lectures’[Publication Type] OR ‘legal cases’[Publication Type] OR ‘legislation’[Publication Type] OR ‘letter’[Publication Type] OR ‘news’[Publication Type] OR ‘newspaper article’[Publication Type] OR ‘patient education handout’[Publication Type] OR ‘popular works’[Publication Type] OR ‘congresses’[Publication Type] OR ‘consensus development conference’[Publication Type] OR ‘consensus development conference, nih’[Publication Type] OR ‘practice guideline’[Publication Type]) NOT (‘animals’[MeSH Terms] NOT ‘humans’[MeSH Terms])
#5#1 AND #2 AND #3 AND #4
#4FunctionFunction*[tiab] OR *function[tiab] OR activit*[tiab] OR disability[tiab] 
#3PROM filterSearch ((HR-PRO[tiab] OR HRPRO[tiab] OR HRQL[tiab] OR HRQoL[tiab] OR QL[tiab] OR QoL[tiab] OR quality of life[tw] OR life quality[tw] OR health index*[tiab] OR health indices[tiab] OR health profile*[tiab] OR health status[tw] OR ((patient[tiab] OR self[tiab] OR child[tiab] OR parent[tiab] OR carer[tiab] OR proxy[tiab]) AND ((report[tiab] OR reported[tiab] OR reporting[tiab]) OR (rated[tiab] OR rating[tiab] OR ratings[tiab]) OR based[tiab] OR (assessed[tiab] OR assessment[tiab] OR assessments[tiab]))) OR ((disability[tiab] OR function[tiab] OR functional[tiab] OR functions[tiab] OR subjective[tiab] OR utility[tiab] OR utilities[tiab] OR wellbeing[tiab] OR well being[tiab]) AND (index[tiab] OR indices[tiab] OR instrument[tiab] OR instruments[tiab] OR measure[tiab] OR measures[tiab] OR questionnaire[tiab] OR questionnaires[tiab] OR profile[tiab] OR profiles[tiab] OR scale[tiab] OR scales[tiab] OR score[tiab] OR scores[tiab] OR status[tiab] OR survey[tiab] OR surveys[tiab]))))
#2Precise search filter on measurement properties28Search instrumentation[sh] OR ‘Validation Studies’[pt] OR ‘reproducibility of results’[MeSH Terms] OR reproducib*[tiab] OR ‘psychometrics’[MeSH] OR psychometr*[tiab] OR clinimetr*[tiab] OR clinometr*[tiab] OR ‘observer variation’[MeSH] OR ‘observer variation’[tiab] OR ‘discriminant analysis’[MeSH] OR reliab*[tiab] OR valid*[tiab] OR coefficient[tiab] OR ‘internal consistency’[tiab] OR (cronbach*[tiab] AND (alpha[tiab] OR alphas[tiab])) OR ‘item correlation’[tiab] OR ‘item correlations’[tiab] OR ‘item selection’[tiab] OR ‘item selections’[tiab] OR ‘item reduction’[tiab] OR ‘item reductions’[tiab] OR agreement[tiab] OR precision[tiab] OR imprecision[tiab] OR ‘precise values’[tiab] OR test-retest[tiab] OR (test[tiab] AND retest[tiab]) OR (reliab*[tiab] AND (test[tiab] OR retest[tiab])) OR stability[tiab] OR interrater[tiab] OR inter-rater[tiab] OR intrarater[tiab] OR intra-rater[tiab] OR intertester[tiab] OR inter-tester[tiab] OR intratester[tiab] OR intra-tester[tiab] OR interobserver[tiab] OR inter-observer[tiab] OR intraobserver[tiab] OR intra-observer[tiab] OR intertechnician[tiab] OR inter-technician[tiab] OR intratechnician[tiab] OR intra-technician[tiab] OR interexaminer[tiab] OR inter-examiner[tiab] OR intraexaminer[tiab] OR intra-examiner[tiab] OR interassay[tiab] OR inter-assay[tiab] OR intraassay[tiab] OR intra-assay[tiab] OR interindividual[tiab] OR inter-individual[tiab] OR intraindividual[tiab] OR intra-individual[tiab] OR interparticipant[tiab] OR inter-participant[tiab] OR intraparticipant[tiab] OR intra-participant[tiab] OR kappa[tiab] OR kappa's[tiab] OR kappas[tiab] OR repeatab*[tiab] OR ((replicab*[tiab] OR repeated[tiab]) AND (measure[tiab] OR measures[tiab] OR findings[tiab] OR result[tiab] OR results[tiab] OR test[tiab] OR tests[tiab])) OR generaliza*[tiab] OR generalisa*[tiab] OR concordance[tiab] OR (intraclass[tiab] AND correlation*[tiab]) OR discriminative[tiab] OR ‘known group’[tiab] OR ‘factor analysis’[tiab] OR ‘factor analyses’[tiab] OR dimensionality[tiab] OR subscale*[tiab] OR ‘multitrait scaling analysis’[tiab] OR ‘multitrait scaling analyses’[tiab] OR ‘item discriminant’[tiab] OR ‘interscale correlation’[tiab] OR ‘interscale correlations’[tiab] OR ((error[tiab] OR errors[tiab]) AND (measure*[tiab] OR correlat*[tiab] OR evaluat*[tiab] OR accuracy[tiab] OR accurate[tiab] OR precision[tiab] OR mean[tiab])) OR ‘individual variability’[tiab] OR ‘variability analysis’[tiab] OR (uncertainty[tiab] AND (measurement[tiab] OR measuring[tiab])) OR ‘standard error of measurement’[tiab] OR sensitiv*[tiab] OR responsive*[tiab] OR (small*[tiab] AND (real[tiab] OR detectable[tiab]) AND (change[tiab] OR difference[tiab])) OR ‘meaningful change’[tiab] OR ‘minimal important change’[tiab] OR ‘minimal important difference’[tiab] OR ‘minimally important change’[tiab] OR ‘minimally important difference’[tiab] OR ‘minimal detectable change’[tiab] OR ‘minimal detectable difference’[tiab] OR ‘minimally detectable change’[tiab] OR ‘minimally detectable difference’[tiab] OR ‘minimal real change’[tiab] OR ‘minimal real difference’[tiab] OR ‘minimally real change’[tiab] OR ‘minimally real difference’[tiab] OR ‘ceiling effect’[tiab] OR ‘floor effect’[tiab] OR ‘Item response model’[tiab] OR IRT[tiab] OR Rasch[tiab] OR ‘Differential item functioning’[tiab] OR DIF[tiab] OR ‘computer adaptive testing’[tiab] OR ‘item bank ’[tiab] OR ‘cross-cultural equivalence’[tiab]
#1HandSearch hand[tiab]
  • PROM, patient-reported outcome measurement.