Updated U.S. population standard for the Veterans RAND 12-item Health Survey (VR-12)

Selim, Alfredo J.; Rogers, William H.; Fleishman, John A.; Qian, Shirley; Fincke, B. Graeme; Rothendler, James A.; Kazis, Lewis E.

doi:10.1007/s11136-008-9418-2

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“…The 12 items can be summarized into 2 subscores measuring physical and mental health, as well as an overall summary score assessing patients' perceptions of their general HRQoL, with a higher score indicating better HRQoL [32].…”

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Effects of physical therapy delivery via home video telerehabilitation on functional and health-related quality of life outcomes

Levy¹,

Silverman²,

Jia³

et al. 2015

J Rehabil Res Dev

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Section: Veterans Rand 12-item Health Surveymentioning

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Effects of physical therapy delivery via home video telerehabilitation on functional and health-related quality of life outcomes

Levy¹,

Silverman²,

Jia³

et al. 2015

J Rehabil Res Dev

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119

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“…The VR-12 is an extensively used nonproprietary patient questionnaire developed from the SF-36 that quantifies patient limitations attributable to physical and emotional problems. The PCS and MCS are on a scale from 0 to 100 with higher scores indicating better health or function, normalized to adult Americans for a score of 50 and a standard deviation of 10 [19,42]. Following previous work, we considered a change of 5 points to be the minimum clinically important difference for the PCS and MCS [45].…”

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Does Surgical Approach Affect Patient-reported Function After Primary THA?

Graves

Dropkin

Keeney

et al. 2016

Clinical Orthopaedics &Amp; Related Research

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Background Total hip arthroplasty (THA) relieves pain and improves physical function in patients with hip osteoarthritis, but requires a year or more for full postoperative recovery. Proponents of intermuscular surgical approaches believe that the direct-anterior approach may restore physical function more quickly than transgluteal approaches, perhaps because of diminished muscle trauma. To evaluate this, we compared patient-reported physical function and other outcome metrics during the first year after surgery between groups of patients who underwent primary THA either through the direct-anterior approach or posterior approach. Questions/purposes We asked: (1) Is a primary THA using a direct-anterior approach associated with better patient-reported physical function at early postoperative times (1 and 3 months) compared with a THA performed through the posterior approach? (2) Is the direct-anterior approach THA associated with shorter operative times and higher rates of noninstitutional discharge than a posterior approach THA? Methods Between

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“…3 Examples of these measures include the Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System Global Health Scale (PROMIS Global Health) 4 and the Veterans RAND 12-Item Health Survey (VR-12). [5][6][7][8][9][10] Administering global health measures allows clinical investigators to measure health change beyond the direct target of the intervention. When treating back pain, for example, it may be useful to know whether global perceptions of mental health also improved and by how much (relative to physical health).…”

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“…14,15 An example of a PROMIS Global Health item is, BIn general, how would you rate your mental health, including your mood and your ability to think?T he VR-12 is a short-form version of the Veterans RAND 36-Item Health Survey (VR-36), which was developed and modified from the RAND-36 v1.0 (MOS SF-36). [5][6][7][8]10,16 The VR-12 is freely available from the principal developers and is included in an ongoing evaluation of the CMS Medicare Advantage program. 17 The VR-12 is also included in the Ambulatory Care Survey of Healthcare Experiences of Patients (SHEP), sponsored by the Veterans Health Administration.…”

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Linking Physical and Mental Health Summary Scores from the Veterans RAND 12-Item Health Survey (VR-12) to the PROMIS® Global Health Scale

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BACKGROUND: Global health measures represent an attractive option for researchers and clinicians seeking a brief snapshot of a patient's overall perspective on his or her health. Because scores on different global health measures are not comparable, comparative effectiveness research (CER) is challenging. OBJECTIVE: To establish a common reporting metric so that the physical and mental health scores on the Veterans RAND 12-Item Health Survey (VR-12 © ) can be converted into scores on the corresponding Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS ® ) Global Health scores. DESIGN: Following a single-sample linking design, participants from an Internet panel completed items from the PROMIS Global Health and VR-12 Health Survey. A common metric was created using analyses based on item response theory (IRT), producing score cross-walk tables for the mental and physical health components of each measure. The linking relationships were evaluated by calculating the standard deviation of differences between the observed and linked PROMIS scores and estimating confidence intervals by sample size. PARTICIPANTS: Participants (N=2025) were 49 % male and 73 % white; mean age was 46 years. MAIN MEASURES: Mental and physical health subscales of the PROMIS Global Health and the VR-12. The mean VR-12 physical component and mental component scores were 45.2 and 46.6, respectively; the mean PROMIS physical and mental health scores were 48.3 and 48.5, respectively. KEY RESULTS: We found evidence that the combined set of VR-12 and PROMIS items were relatively unidimensional and that we could proceed with linking. Linking worked better between the physical health than mental health scores using VR-12 item responses (vs. linking based on algorithmic scores). For each of the cross-walks, users can minimize the impact of linking error with modest increases in sample sizes.CONCLUSIONS: VR-12 scores can be expressed on the PROMIS Global Health metric to facilitate the evaluation of treatment, including CER. Extending these results to other common measures of global health is encouraged.

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Updated U.S. population standard for the Veterans RAND 12-item Health Survey (VR-12)

Abstract: Changes in the U.S. population between 1990 and today make the old standard obsolete for the VR-12, so the updated standard developed here is widely available to serve as such a contemporary standard for future applications for health-related quality of life (HRQoL) assessments.

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Effects of physical therapy delivery via home video telerehabilitation on functional and health-related quality of life outcomes

Effects of physical therapy delivery via home video telerehabilitation on functional and health-related quality of life outcomes

Does Surgical Approach Affect Patient-reported Function After Primary THA?

Linking Physical and Mental Health Summary Scores from the Veterans RAND 12-Item Health Survey (VR-12) to the PROMIS® Global Health Scale

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