Published: 31-01-2018

We've welcomed in the New Year in 2018 by changing the way in which we search the PubMed database for new studies relevant to health economics and outcomes research. We run our systematic search every night to find new papers that have just been added to PubMed (you can see our search strategy here) but now, we search the previous seven days' worth of releases every night, not just the past 24 hours' additions. This small but important change means that we added around 7,300 new abstracts to heoro.com in January 2018, compared with an average of 1,400 per month in 2017. 

We regularly check the new additions to the database and update our ontologies of interventions and PRO instruments with the new items we find cited in the abstracts. We tweet about the more interesting and useful papers we find - you can follow us on @HeoroCom - and from time to time, we write a blog about the new additions. 

In January 2018, we added 49 new intruments to our PRO tool ontology. These are listed below. You can identify the papers that cited these instruments as follows

1. Go to the heoro.com Dashboard

2. Select "All diseases or no specific disease" from the Diseases menu

3. Select "PRO studies" from the Study type menu

4. Then select the PRO instrument you are interested in  from the Instruments menu

5. Click on "Search" and all relevant papers will appear. 

New PRO instruments added to the ontology in January 2018

• 5-Dimensions of Itch scale
• Activity Significance Personal Evaluation (ASPEn)
• Adolescent Cleft Questionnaire
• AFImpact
• Atrial Fibrillation Guideline Support Tool (AFGuST)
• Atrial Fibrillation Quality of Life (AF-QoL)
• Australian Pelvic Floor Questionnaire
• Cancer Communication Assessment Tool (CCAT)
• Central Sensitization Inventory (CSI)
• Chelsea Critical Care Physical Assessment
• Collection of Indirect and Nonmedical Direct Costs (COIN)
• Daily Angina Diary
• Death and Dying Distress Scale
• DePaul Symptom Questionnaire
• Dysmenorrhea Daily Diary (DysDD)
• European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire- Testicular Cancer (EORTC QLQ-TC26)
• Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS)
• Hyperhidrosis Quality of Life Index (HidroQOL)
• Impact of Alzheimer's Disease on Caregiver Questionnaire
• Infantile Hemangioma Quality-of-Life (IH-QoL)
• Intuitive Eating Scale-2
• Japan Asthma Control Survey (JACS)
• Long-Term Quality of Life Breast Cancer scale (LTQOL-BC)
• Multi-Dimensional Gastrointestinal Symptom Severity Index
• Multiple Sclerosis Severity Score
• Multiple Sclerosis Treatment Concerns Questionnaire (MSTCQ)
• Narrative Foreclosure Scale (NFS)
• Nordic Questionnaire for Monitoring the Age Diverse Workforce
• Papua New Guinea Vision-Specific Quality of Life Questionnaire
• Parent's Outcome Expectations for Children's Television Viewing (POETV)
• Patient-Reported Global AD Severity (atopic dermatitis)
• PROcedural Sedation Assessment Survey (PROSAS)
• Prostate Cancer Specific Quality of Life Instrument
• Psoriatic Arthritis Impact Profile (PAIP)
• RAND Asthma Control Measure (RAND-ACM)
• Regret Coping Scale for Health-Care Professionals (RCS-HCP)
• Screening Test AWS (ST-AWS)
• Self-Perceived Burden Scale
• Sense of Security in Care-Relatives' Evaluation (SEC-R)
• Somatic Symptoms Experiences Questionnaire (SSEQ)
• Stanford Presenteeism Scale-6
• Stanford Self-Efficacy Score
• Symptom Assessment in Dry Eye (SANDE)
• Systemic Sclerosis Questionnaire (SySQ)
• Treatment-Impact Questionnaire
• Trojan Lifetime Champions Health Survey
• Visual Analogue Fatigue Scale (VAFS)
• Voice Fatigue Handicap Questionnaire (VFHQ)
• Weight-Specific Adolescent Instrument for Economic-Evaluation (WAItE)