Patient-centred composite scores as tools for assesment of response to biological therapy for paediatric and adult severe asthma

BACKGROUND: We have previously developed Core Outcome Measures sets for Severe Asthma (COMSA) by multi-stakeholder consensus. There are no patient-centred tools to quantify response to biologics for severe asthma. We aimed to develop paediatric and adult CompOsite iNdexes For Response in asthMa (CONFiRM) incorporating clinical parameters and patient-reported quality of life (QoL). METHODS: International expert healthcare professionals (HCPs) and patients with severe asthma were invited to: 1) develop consensus levels of clinically relevant changes for each outcome measure within COMSA; 2) use multicriteria decision analysis to develop the CONFiRM scores and 3) assess their internal validity. A separate group of HCPs evaluated CONFiRM's external validity. RESULTS: Five levels of change for each COMSA outcome were agreed. Severe exacerbations and maintenance oral corticosteroids use were rated as most important in determining both paediatric and adult CONFiRM scores. There was strong agreement between HCPs and patients, although patients assigned greater importance to QoL. The CONFiRM score quantified response to a biological from -31 (deterioration) to 69 (best possible response). Paediatric and adult CONFiRMs had good discriminative ability for a sufficient (AUC

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