Two Methods for Calculating Symptom Cluster Scores

Volume: 69, Issue: 2, Pages: 133 - 141
Published: Dec 5, 2019
Abstract
Background null Symptom clusters are conventionally distilled into a single score using composite scoring, which is based on the mathematical assumption that all symptoms are equivalently related to outcomes of interest; this may lead to a loss of important variation in the data. null Objectives null This article compares two ways of calculating a single score for a symptom cluster: a conventional, hypothesis-driven composite score versus a...
Paper Details
Title
Two Methods for Calculating Symptom Cluster Scores
Published Date
Dec 5, 2019
Volume
69
Issue
2
Pages
133 - 141
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