Cardiac rehabilitation: patient-reported outcomes are decisive for success.

Patient-Reported Outcomes, Patient-Reported Information

Internet communication is developing. Social networking sites enable patients to publish and receive communications very easily. Many stakeholders, including patients, are using these media to find new ways to make sense of diseases, to find and discuss treatments, and to give support to patients and their caregivers. We argue for a new definition of patient-reported information (PRI), which di...

Patient-reported Outcomes

Key points Many gastrointestinal diseases are symptomdriven, so the patient’s perspective is particularly important in this area. Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) provide essential information that objective measures and clinician assessment may fail to capture. PROs can be measured in a scientific, reliable, and valid manner. Generic, disease-specific and treatmentspecific PRO instruments exis...

Patient-Reported Outcomes - Are They Living Up to Their Potential?

A part of a nationwide movement toward giving patients more of a voice in their health care, an increasing number of organizations are collecting and assessing patient-reported outcomes (PROs). There is a growing chorus of support from clinicians, researchers, and payers for embracing PRO measurement instruments in clinical care. But there are still important practical questions about how data ...

Patient-Reported Outcomes (PROs) and Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs)

In recent years, there has been an increased focus on placing patients at the center of health care research and evaluating clinical care in order to improve their experience and ensure that research is both robust and of maximum value for the use of medicinal products, therapy, or health services. This paper provides an overview of patients' involvement in clinical research and service evaluat...

Patient reported outcomes for rheumatoid arthritis: where are we and where are we going?