Stergios K. Doumouchtsis

review 2022

A systematic review highlighting poor quality of evidence for content validity of quality of life instruments in female chronic pelvic pain

·doi:10.1016/j.jclinepi.2022.04.016

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the content validity of 19 patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) used to measure quality of life (QoL) in women with chronic pelvic pain (CPP). STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING: We searched Embase, MEDLINE, PsycINFO data…

2022

Outcome reporting in randomized controlled trials (RCTs) on the pharmacological management of idiopathic overactive bladder (OAB) in women; a systematic review for the development of core outcome sets (COS).

International urogynecology journal ·doi:10.1007/s00192-021-05040-1

Introduction and hypothesisEvidence on OAB management remains suboptimal and methodological limitations in randomized control trials (RCTs) affect their comparability. High quality meta-analyses are lacking. This study aimed to compare sele…

2021

Developing Core Outcome Sets (COS) and Core Outcome Measures Sets (COMS) in Cosmetic Gynecological Interventions: Protocol for a Development and Usability Study.

JMIR research protocols ·doi:10.2196/28032

BackgroundStudies evaluating cosmetic gynecological interventions have followed variable methodology and reported a diversity of outcomes. Such variations limit the comparability of studies and the value of research-based evidence. The deve…

review 2021

Evaluation of clinical practice guidelines (CPG) on the management of female chronic pelvic pain (CPP) using the AGREE II instrument

International urogynecology journal ·doi:10.1007/s00192-021-04848-1

INTRODUCTION AND HYPOTHESIS: Variations in guidelines may result in differences in treatments and potentially poorer health-related outcomes. We aimed to systematically review and evaluate the quality of national and international guideline…

2019

A protocol for developing, disseminating, and implementing a core outcome set for stress urinary incontinence.

Medicine ·doi:10.1097/md.0000000000016876

IntroductionRandomized trials evaluating interventions for stress urinary incontinence (SUI) have been using variable outcome measures, reporting a variety of outcomes. Alongside this variation across studies, outcome-reporting flaws contri…

2018

A systematic review of outcome and outcome-measure reporting in randomised trials evaluating surgical interventions for anterior-compartment vaginal prolapse: a call to action to develop a core outcome set.

International urogynecology journal ·doi:10.1007/s00192-018-3781-5

IntroductionWe assessed outcome and outcome-measure reporting in randomised controlled trials evaluating surgical interventions for anterior-compartment vaginal prolapse and explored the relationships between outcome reporting quality with …

review 2015

The effect of bipolar electrocoagulation during ovarian cystectomy on ovarian reserve: a systematic review

·doi:10.1016/j.ajog.2015.04.006

The aim of the present systematic review was to study the effect of bipolar electrocoagulation during ovarian cystectomy on ovarian reserve. We searched Medline (1966-2015), Scopus (2004-2015), ClinicalTrials.gov (2008-2015), and Cochrane C…