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Table 4 Extract from item pool illustrating presentation of items 2, 3, 4, 5, before literal de-duplication

From: Pre-validation methods for developing a patient reported outcome instrument

Item No.

Item

Response

Instrument

2

In general would you say your health is..

1-4 scale response, higher scores indicating more optimistic views.

QOLVFQ

3

In general, would you say your overall health is...

1 = Excellent, 2 = very good, 3 = good, 4 = fair, 5 = poor.

NEI VFQ-25

4

In general would you say your health is:

1 = very good, 2 = fairly good, 3 = fair, 4 = rather bad, 5 = very bad

SWED-QUAL

5

In general would you say your health is:

Excellent, very good, good, fair, poor

SF-36