KDQOL-SF 1.3 Scoring Program (v2.

0)
Copyright UCLA Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, 2000.

11/1/2000
kdqol-v13-2-template.xls template to use for entering your data. kdqol-v13-2-sample.xls example with 20 cases.

Instructions for use:

The KDQOL-SF scoring program (v2.0) is an Excel 97 spreadsheet consisting of 5 sheets: RAW, CONVERT, SCORE, SCALE, and STATS and assumes a basic knowledge of how to get around in Excel. It currently handles up to 1000 cases and with some small adjustments, can handle more. RAW: all data entry is done here with each row representing a unique case. There is room for the date of administration and a case ID plus each item in the KDQOL-SF. Rules have been set up to only allow valid data for the KDQOL-SF items. Out-of-range values are met with an error message and an opportunity to correct the value. Missing or invalid data defaults to the missing value . which is necessary so that these cases are handled properly in subsequent computations. CONVERT: static table that lists items from the KDQOL-SF and how they get rescored. SCORE: an intermediate table between RAW and SCALE. It is a dynamic table that shows how the data from RAW was rescored using the rules in CONVERT. SCALE: computes and displays scale scores for each patient. STATS: computes and displays descriptive statistics for KDQOL, SF-36, and SF-12 composite scores across all patients. Note that when printing any of these sheets you must adjust your print area (File/Print Area) to reflect the number of cases you have. The template program is currently set up to print 20 cases.

Some details in computations:

The symptoms scale reflects the average of the 1214 kidney disease symptom items. Item 14L should only be answered if the patient is on hemodialysis and item 14M should only be answered if the patient is on peritoneal dialysis. In some cases patients give answers to both items. In our scoring program, we take the most extreme response of the two and use that in the computation of the symptom scale. We feel that this will ensure we obtain the intended response. NOTE: Earlier version used the least extreme. This modification was made for v2.0. Sometimes the patient will not follow the sexual activity item skip properly (item 16). Here they may answer I16=1 (no), but go on and respond to items 16a and 16b. In this case, we assume that they answered the stem question correctly and we go on and recode I16a and I16b to . (missing).

03/29/2005: Fixed a typo above number of kidney disease symptom items.