{"id":969,"date":"2021-03-04T15:59:28","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T15:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lab.research.sickkids.ca\/enrich\/?page_id=969"},"modified":"2026-02-06T20:00:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T20:00:25","slug":"prisma-cosmin","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lab.research.sickkids.ca\/enrich\/reporting-standards\/prisma-cosmin\/","title":{"rendered":"PRISMA-COSMIN for Outcome Measurement Instruments"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/i><\/i><\/span>About PRISMA-COSMIN for Outcome Measurement Instruments<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>
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Evidence-based treatment and healthcare policy decision making rests on information collected in research studies. Health outcome measurements are only as good as the outcome measurement instruments (OMIs) used to make them. Yet, the use of OMIs with poor or unknown quality is widespread in clinical research, hindering therapy development. While appraisal tools for the selection of the most suitable OMIs have been developed by the COnsensus based Standards for the selection of health Measurement INstruments (COSMIN) initiative, key information is often missing in published systematic reviews. To ensure measurements are valid, reliable, patient-centered, and comparable across research studies and health systems, complete reporting of OMI appraisal is essential. However, there was no consensus on what constitutes complete and sufficient reporting.<\/span><\/p>\n

To address this issue, we assembled an international group of experts to develop an evidence-informed and consensus-based reporting guideline: PRISMA-COSMIN for OMIs. Our team included OMI developers, measurement experts, systematic reviewers, OMI users such as doctors and researchers, checklist developers, and users of knowledge generated by OMIs including patients. The new checklist, developed using cutting edge research methods, was tested across various health disciplines and OMI systematic reviews. The checklist is freely available worldwide and will have a global impact by teaching researchers how to report their systematic reviews on OMIs appropriately, so that measurements made are useful, correct, and meaningful. Our work will improve the quality of systematic reviews of OMIs and contribute towards reducing research waste, informing health decisions, and ultimately improving patient and health system outcomes.<\/span><\/p>\n

The PRISMA-COSMIN for OMIs guideline has been endorsed for use by academic journals and are published open access in four journals:\u00a0Quality of Life Research, Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes.\u00a0<\/em>Links to all four publications are available under the “Publications” tab below.<\/span><\/p>\n

Various resources, such as the downloadable checklist and tip sheets are freely accessible:<\/span><\/p>\n