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. 2018 Jun 8;122(5):760–773. doi: 10.1111/bju.14368

Table 6.

Overall levels of evidence per measurement property and PROM

PROM Measurement properties
Content validity Structural validity Internal consistency Reliability Measurement Error Hypothesis testing Criterion validity Responsiveness Cross‐cultural validity
Generic
EQ‐5D 0 0 0 0 0 −− 0 0 0
SF‐36 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
WHOQOL‐BREF 0 0 ? 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cancer generic
EORTC QLQ‐C30 0 0 0 0 0 ? 0 ++ 0
Bladder Cancer
BCI +++ ? ++ −− 0 −− 0 ? ?
FACT‐Bl 0 ? ? 0 0 0 0 ?
MIBC
FACT‐VCI ? −− ++ ++ 0 ++ 0 + ?
IONB‐PRO +++ + + 0 ? + 0 0 0
EORTC QLQ‐BLM30 0 0 ? 0 0 + 0 0 0
Caffo et al. 35 +++ ? ? 0 0 0 0 0 ?
Bjerre et al. 36 +++ ? ? 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hart et al. 37 0 0 ? 0 0 0 0 0 0
Henningsohn et al. 38 +++ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ?
NMIBC
EORTC QLQ‐NMIBC24 0 ? + 0 0 ++ 0 −− 0
CAVICAVENMI +++ ++ ? ? 0 + 0 0 0

+++, strong evidence positive result; ++ or −−, moderate evidence positive/negative result; + or −, limited evidence positive/negative result; ?, unknown rating, due to poor methodological quality; 0, not assessed.