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  • What are PROMs?

    Learn about Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs).

  • How to Use PROs

    See instructions and insights into using PROs at different levels of the healthcare system.

  • Evidence and Perspectives on PROs

    See discussions about recent topics on collecting patient-reported outcomes.

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    See list of other useful websites about PROs, PROMs, and more.

Understanding Patient-Reported Outcomes

Understanding patients’ views and experiences is essential to learning whether healthcare services and policies are meeting the needs of patients and what steps should be taken to improve the system. Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) seek to capture patients’ views about their own health and the health services that they receive.

Patient-reported outcomes are often collected in the form of standardized questionnaires, or patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs). PROMs can measure a patient’s perspective of their general health, or their health related to a specific condition. Unlike clinical and physiological outcomes, PROMs can directly understand how health conditions or interventions affect patients’ quality of life. This provides valuable information which can be used in a variety of ways, such as to inform therapeutic decisions in clinical settings to research and performance assessments.

This website is aims to outline, describe, and inform PROs and PROMs use in healthcare settings.

RSS PROs in the news

  • Prognostic value of symptom burden as a simple patient-reported outcome measure in older patients with heart failure - Nature
  • PROMoting quality of care through patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) - OECD
  • Global burden of breast cancer and application of patient-reported outcomes in clinical trials: a systematic analysis based on the global burden of disease study 2021 and WHO international clinical trial register database - Frontiers
  • Patient-Reported Outcomes in the Treatment of IgA Nephropathy - AJMC
  • ‘Just different’: Efficacy of patient-reported outcome programs vary widely by institution - Healio
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