{"id":10185,"date":"2018-02-10T08:00:42","date_gmt":"2018-02-10T08:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edrugstore.com\/blog\/?p=10185"},"modified":"2018-12-18T12:37:15","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T12:37:15","slug":"how-do-doctors-and-patients-determine-erection-quality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edrugstore.com\/blog\/erectile-dysfunction\/how-do-doctors-and-patients-determine-erection-quality\/","title":{"rendered":"How Do Doctors and Patients Determine ‘Erection Quality’?"},"content":{"rendered":"

D<\/span>rugmakers and medical professionals rely heavily on patients’ subjective judgments to evaluate the efficacy and quality of the erectile dysfunction medications they take. To that end, questionnaires such as the Quality of Erection Questionnaire, or QEQ, have been developed.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Quantifying the effectiveness of any medication designed to treat erection problems can be difficult. That\u2019s because the researchers don\u2019t typically follow the patient into the bedroom to determine how the medication worked.<\/p>\n

Also, in the case of sexual performance, defining what is \u201ceffective\u201d can be a subjective process. So, how is it that doctors and patients know if the erectile dysfunction medication is working — or not?<\/p>\n

Gauging ED Drug Efficacy<\/h3>\n

To overcome such obstacles, researchers rely heavily upon questionnaires to determine the success of the medication. Scientists have come up with a few different measurement tools to help quantify the results of taking ED medications such as Viagra. These tools include the six-question Quality of Erection Questionnaire<\/a> (QEQ), which seeks to quantify the patient\u2019s sense of erection, \u201chardness, onset, and duration.\u201d Created by Pfizer Pharmaceuticals<\/a>, the multiple-choice questions include the patient\u2019s personal perceptions of whether they had:<\/p>\n