title: [Establishment and primary screening of primitive entry pool of rating scale for patient-reported outcomes of coronary heart disease angina].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To establish and screen the primitive entry pool of scale for patient-reported outcomes of coronary heart disease angina (CHDA).
  
  
  METHODS
  Under the guidance of Chinese medical theory, the original entry pool was preliminarily established in referring the international scale development methods and the characteristics of angina pectoris, which was screened by focus group discussions, semi-open questionnaires investigation, and expert's interviews.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Thirty-six entries were screened out from the 41 entries of initially established entry pool, in which 14 entries dealt with physiological domain, 8 with psychological domain, 4 with independent domain, 3 with social relations domain, 6 with social environment domain and 1 for overall assessment.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The preliminary entries screened out have covered all the 5 commonly concerned domains of CHD-AP, could reflect the connotation of the disease more comprehensively. And it has good content validity due to its popular language, which is easily to be understood, comprehended and responded.
authors: Guang'anmen Hospital Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing.
authors: Qing-yong
authors: QY
authors: He
authors: Jie
authors: J
authors: Wang
authors: Kui-wu
authors: KW
authors: Yao
mesh_terms: D000787:Angina Pectoris / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D055048:Integrative Medicine; D016896:Treatment Outcome