A comparison of three methods to generate a conceptual understanding of a disease based on the patients’ perspective

The Food and Drug Administration patient-reported outcome (PRO) guidance provides standards for PRO development, but these standards bring scientific and logistical challenges which can result in a lengthy and expensive instrument development process. Thus, more pragmatic methods are needed alongside traditional approaches. Partnering with the National Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS) Society, we compared three methods for eliciting patient...