An audience member noted that one of the benefits to the GBI is that patients report at their current time point, offering an assessment once the procedure is done. However, with the one disadvantage of the GBI being recall bias, it might be worthwhile to try to overcome that in future studies, he added.
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March 2022Dr. Tang acknowledged that “there definitely is recall bias, since we didn’t administer the test beforehand.” But he agreed that a validated outcomes study would be a good approach, if possible, with questionnaires given before and after “so that you could compare quality-of-life differences.”
Thomas R. Collins is a freelance medical writer based in Florida.