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The independent Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (Institut für Qualität und Wirtschaftlichkeit im Gesundheitswesen, IQWiG) examines the benefits and harms of medical interventions for patients.
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Introduction - Quality of life and other PROs: challenges in the recording and analysis for patient-relevant outcomes
Stefanie Thomas - IQWiG, Köln
Use of scales for patient-reported outcomes: challenges in development, validation, application and interpretation
Susanne Singer - Universitätsmedizin Mainz
Measuring quality of life and specific patient-reported outcomes - elementary components of benefit assessment
Martin Danner - BAG Selbsthilfe, Düsseldorf
Patient-reported outcomes: How can meaningful minimal patient-relevant differences be derived?
Jens-Otto Andreas - UCB, Monheim
Methodological aspects in the analysis of quality of life data in benefit assessments
Christoph Schürmann - IQWiG, Köln
Development and use of clinical relevance thresholds to support the interpretation of patient-reported outcomes
Johannes Giesinger - Medizinische Universität Innsbruck