Why stay in prison? Its gates have always been open!1 CRB Joyce, PhD Mapi, founded in 1974, saw the importance of including the study of Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQL)…

With this special issue of the PRO Newsletter, we are pleased to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Mapi. For four decades we have been championing the voice of the patient…

Catherine Acquadro, MD Scientific Advisor, Mapi Research Trust The celebration of the 40 years of Mapi is a wonderful opportunity to ponder the past and dream about the future. So,…

Laurie Burke, RPh, MPH Founder of LORA Group, LLC and former Associate Director for Study Endpoints and Labeling, Office of New Drugs, CDER, FDA I started my career at the…

Edited by Uwe Engel, Ben Jann, Peter Lynn, Annette Scherpenzeel, Patrick Sturgis Routledge – ISBN 9780415817622 – September 2014 This state-of-the-art volume provides insight into the recent developments in survey…

Stephen Joel Coons, PhD Executive Director, Patient-Reported Outcome Consortium, Critical Path Institute, Tucson, AZ, USA Through pharmacy school at the University of Connecticut and graduate school at the University of…

Joseph C. Cappelleri, Kelly H. Zou, Andrew G. Bushmakin, Jose Ma. J. Alvir, Demissie Alemayehu, Tara Symonds Chapman and Hall/CRC – ISBN 9781439873670 – December 2013 Features Describes how to…

John E. Ware, Jr., PhD Chief Science Officer and Chairman, JWRG, Worcester,MA, USA I very much appreciate this opportunity to write during the celebration of Mapi’s 40th anniversary and to…

Edited by Steven P. Reise, Dennis Revicki Routledge – ISBN 9781848729728 – December 2014 Item response theory (IRT) has moved beyond the confines of educational measurement into assessment domains such…

Peter Fayers, David Machin Wiley – ISBN 9781118699454 – May 2013 (e-version) Quality of life studies form an essential part of the evaluation of any treatment. Written by two authors…

The globalization of clinical research has fostered the need of patient-centered outcomes measures adapted for use in a multicultural context.

Mixed methods research can be defined as “research in which the investigator collects and analyzes data, integrates the findings, and draws inferences using both qualitative and quantitative approaches or methods in a single study or program of inquiry.

John W. Creswell and Vicki L. Plano Clark Sage Publications – ISBN 978-1412975179– 2011 A practical, how-to guide to designing mixed methods studies Combining the latest thinking about mixed methods…

The idea that patients with chronic diseases make a kind of judgment—whether or not their medications are worth taking on a long-term basis—is relatively common among healthcare professionals, doctors, pharmacists, and nurses.

Svend Brinkmann, Steinar Kvale 9781452275727 – April 2014 The Third Edition of Brinkmann and Kvale’s InterViews: Learning the Craft of Qualitative Research Interviewing, offers readers comprehensive and practical insight into…

Patients have an increasing role in the benefit/risk assessment of health products. As the final “consumer,” they represent a critical pathway for the actual product use.

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As many readers of the PRO Newsletter know, our colleague and friend Catherine Pouget died on July 3, 2001, at the age of 31, after a long and courageous battle with cancer. During the last year of her life she suffered greatly, not only from the effects of her disease and its treatment, but even more from the lack of understanding and compassion by the medical staff that treated her.