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Overview

Donald L. Patrick is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within medicine and health professions, with a focus on patient-reported outcomes, health systems, and disease-specific studies.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Medicine
  • Health Professions

Within these fields, subfields of study show a concentration on:

  • General Health Professions
  • Genetics
  • Oncology
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Economics and Econometrics

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Cleft Lip and Palate Research
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Delphi Technique in Research
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Global Cancer Incidence and Screening
  • Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare
  • BRCA gene mutations in cancer

Frequent publication venues for Donald L. Patrick consist of:

  • The Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal
  • Diabetes
  • Value in Health
  • Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
  • BMJ Open

Some of their recent notable papers include:

  • COSMIN Risk of Bias tool to assess the quality of studies on reliability or measurement error of outcome measurement instruments: a Delphi study, 2020, BMC Medical Research Methodology
  • Evaluating the credibility of anchor based estimates of minimal important differences for patient reported outcomes: instrument development and reliability study, 2020, BMJ
  • Defining Patient Engagement in Research: Results of a Systematic Review and Analysis: Report of the ISPOR Patient-Centered Special Interest Group, 2020, Value in Health
  • SPIRIT-PRO Extension explanation and elaboration: guidelines for inclusion of patient-reported outcomes in protocols of clinical trials, 2021, BMJ Open
  • Minimal important difference estimates for patient-reported outcomes: A systematic survey, 2020, Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Donald L. Patrick has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Todd C. Edwards
  • Micah L. Olson
  • Stephanie L. Ayers
  • Gabriel Q. Shaibi
  • Armando Peña

Best Publications

  • Measuring health-related quality of life.

    Gordon H. Guyatt;David H. Feeny;Donald L. Patrick

  • Screening for depression in well older adults: Evaluation of a short form of the CES-D

    Elena M. Andresen;Judith A. Malmgren;William B. Carter;Donald L. Patrick

  • The COSMIN study reached international consensus on taxonomy, terminology, and definitions of measurement properties for health-related patient-reported outcomes.

    Lidwine B. Mokkink;Caroline B. Terwee;Donald L. Patrick;Jordi Alonso

  • The COSMIN checklist for assessing the methodological quality of studies on measurement properties of health status measurement instruments: an international Delphi study

    Lidwine B. Mokkink;Caroline B. Terwee;Donald L. Patrick;Jordi Alonso

  • Generic and disease-specific measures in assessing health status and quality of life.

    Donald L. Patrick;Richard A. Deyo

  • COSMIN guideline for systematic reviews of patient-reported outcome measures

    C. A.C. Prinsen;L. B. Mokkink;L. M. Bouter;J. Alonso

  • The validity of self-reported smoking: a review and meta-analysis.

    Donald L. Patrick;Allen Cheadle;Diane C. Thompson;Paula Diehr

  • COSMIN Risk of Bias checklist for systematic reviews of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures

    L. B. Mokkink;H. C. W. de Vet;C. A. C. Prinsen;D. L. Patrick

  • The COSMIN checklist for evaluating the methodological quality of studies on measurement properties: A clarification of its content

    Lidwine B Mokkink;Caroline B Terwee;Dirk L Knol;Paul W Stratford

  • Reproducibility and responsiveness of health status measures. Statistics and strategies for evaluation.

    Richard A. Deyo;Paula Diehr;Donald L. Patrick

  • COSMIN methodology for evaluating the content validity of patient-reported outcome measures: a Delphi study

    C. B. Terwee;C. A.C. Prinsen;A. Chiarotto;M. J. Westerman

  • Content validity--establishing and reporting the evidence in newly developed patient-reported outcomes (PRO) instruments for medical product evaluation: ISPOR PRO Good Research Practices Task Force report: part 2--assessing respondent understanding.

    Donald L. Patrick;Laurie B. Burke;Chad J. Gwaltney;Nancy Kline Leidy

  • Content Validity—Establishing and Reporting the Evidence in Newly Developed Patient-Reported Outcomes (PRO) Instruments for Medical Product Evaluation: ISPOR PRO Good Research Practices Task Force Report: Part 1—Eliciting Concepts for a New PRO Instrument

    Donald L. Patrick;Laurie B. Burke;Chad J. Gwaltney;Nancy Kline Leidy

  • Depressive Symptoms and the Cost of Health Services in HMO Patients Aged 65 Years and Older: A 4-Year Prospective Study

    Jürgen Unützer;Donald L. Patrick;Greg Simon;David Grembowski

  • Assessing health-related quality of life in patients with sciatica.

    Donald L. Patrick;Richard A. Deyo;Steven J. Atlas;Daniel E. Singer

  • Health Status and Health Policy: Quality of Life in Health Care Evaluation and Resource Allocation

    Donald L. Patrick;Pennifer Erickson

  • Validation of the United States' version of the World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQOL) instrument.

    Amy E. Bonomi;Donald L. Patrick;Donald M. Bushnell;Mona Martin

  • Patient-Reported Outcomes to Support Medical Product Labeling Claims: FDA Perspective

    Donald L. Patrick;Laurie B. Burke;John H. Powers;Jane A. Scott

  • Quality of Life in Persons with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (Development and Validation of a New Measure)

    Donald L. Patrick;Douglas A. Drossman;Ihunnaya O. Frederick;Joseph Dicesare

  • Self-efficacy and health behavior among older adults.

    David Grembowski;Donald Patrick;Paula Diehr;Mary Durham

Frequent Co-Authors

Lesley Fallowfield
Lesley Fallowfield University of Sussex
Charles S. Cleeland
Charles S. Cleeland The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Scott D. Ramsey
Scott D. Ramsey Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Shirley A. A. Beresford
Shirley A. A. Beresford University of Washington
Lex M. Bouter
Lex M. Bouter Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
J. Randall Curtis
J. Randall Curtis University of Washington
Jordi Alonso
Jordi Alonso Pompeu Fabra University
Richard A. Deyo
Richard A. Deyo Oregon Health & Science University
Gordon H. Guyatt
Gordon H. Guyatt McMaster University
Felipe González Castro
Felipe González Castro Arizona State University

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