Tore K Kvien
Performance of health status measures with a pen based personal digital assistant
Diakonhjemmet Hospital
increasing use self reported health status clinical practice research well patient appreciation monitoring fluctuations health time suggest need frequent collection data electronic use health status measures follow patients possible way achieve thisto compare self reported health status measures personal digital assistant pda version paperpencil version testretest reliability agreement scores feasibility30 patients stable rheumatoid arthritis mean age 616 years range 498 700 mean disease duration 167 years 63 female 67 rheumatoid factor positive 466 disease modifying antirheumatic drugs completed self reported health status measures pain fatigue global health visual analogue scales vas rheumatoid arthritis disease activity index modified health assessment questionnaire sf36 conventional paper based questionnaire version pda hp ipaq model h5450 completion repeated five seven daystestretest reliability similar evaluated blandaltman approach coefficient variation intraclass correlation coefficients scores showed acceptable agreement slight tendency higher scores vas pda paperpencil version significant differences seen measures feasibility time complete satisfaction score 655 preferred pda 207 preferred paper 138 preferencethe clinimetric performance paperpencil versions self reported health status measures similar electronic version using inexpensive pda