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What is the ePBI?

ePBI is an instrument for dermatological patients and their physicians based on the Patient Benefit Index (PBI). The PBI is used in experimental dermatology to evaluate the efficacy and safety of drugs used for the treatment of psoriasis, while patient reported needs and benefits are collected. It can also be gathered for quality assurance and shared decision making. ePBI is available as a mobile application for Android and iOS devices, as well as a web-based online calculator.

Validation of questionnaire

paper version: yes digital version: yes

Before the beginning of treatment, the patient completes a questionnaire on their treatment goals (PNQ: Patient Needs Questionnaire) and indicates how important these are to them on a 5-point scale from "not at all" to " very" or whether they do not apply to them. After starting treatment, the patient completes the Patient Benefit Questionnaire (PBQ) and indicates the extent to which the treatment has helped them to achieve the previously listed goals or whether these did not apply to them. Once again, this is rated on a 5-point scale from "not at all" to "very". Finally, the overall benefit of the therapy is calculated from the answers given.

2) Treatment benefits

Please fill in the type of treatment for skin disease that you are currently undergoing (or which you underwent last):

Treatment: _____________________________ Since when?: _____________________

O No treatment of skin disease over the last 12 months (→ please continue on the next page!)

Please mark for each of the following statements how well the goals of the current treatment have already been met and how beneficial the treatment has been. If a statement did not apply to you, e.g. because you had no pain, please mark “did not apply to me”.

About Patient Reported Outcomes

“A PRO is any report of the status of a patient’s health condition that comes directly from the patient, without interpretation of the patient’s response by a clinician or anyone else.”

“Use of a PRO instrument is advised when measuring a concept best known by the patient or best measured from the patient perspective. […] PRO instrument adequacy depends on its role and relationships with other clinical trial endpoints as depicted in the endpoint model.”

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electronic Patient Benefit Index

ePBI

Quick and easy assessment of

therapy benefit

What is the ePBI?

How to use the ePBI

1) Importance of treatment goals

2) Treatment benefits

3) Calculation PBI

4) View of results (example)

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The following versions of the ePBI are available

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