Single-item discrimination of quality-of-life-altering dysphagia among 714 long-term oropharyngeal cancer survivors: Comparison of patient-reported outcome measures of swallowing.
null nullStephen R GrantMona J KamalAbdallah S R MohamedJhankruti ZaveriMartha P BarrowG Brandon GunnStephen Y LaiJan S LewinDavid I RosenthalXin Shelley WangClifton David FullerKatherine A HutchesonPublished in: Cancer (2019)
In this cohort, the single-item MDASI-HN-S performed favorably for the discrimination of QOL compared with the multi-item MDADI. A time-efficient model for PRO measurement of swallowing is proposed in which the MDADI may be reserved for patients who score ≥6 on the MDASI-HN-S.