OBJECTIVES Health valuation studies enhance economic evaluations of treatments by estimating the value of health-related quality of life (HRQOL). The Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) includes a 29-item short-form HRQOL measure, the PROMIS-29. METHODS To value PROMIS-29 responses on a quality-adjusted life-year scale, we conducted a national survey (N = 7557) u...

For decades, clinical trials have relied on information from patients about their symptoms, functioning, and treatment experiences to evaluate treatment safety and efficacy. Today, information reported directly by patients (patient reported outcomes or “PROs”) using various technologies serves as the primary source of data about symptoms, functioning, health events, and the impact diseases and ...

The purpose of the article was to provide an overview of patient-reported outcomes (PROs) and related measures that have been examined in the context of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). The current review focused on patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) that evaluated three broad outcome domains: functioning, health-related quality of life (HRQoL), and OCD-related symptoms. The present ...

The current standard method for adverse symptom monitoring in clinical trials is staff reporting [1, 2]. This is generally conducted via a complex process of data transfer, during which clinicians interview patients and then document impressions in medical charts ad hoc; study personnel abstract these charts and convert reported symptoms to a standard lexicon such as the Common Terminology Crit...

STUDY DESIGN Retrospective, case series. PURPOSE The purpose of this study is to determine morbidity, complications, and patient reported outcomes from minimally invasive sacroiliac joint (SIJ) fusion. OVERVIEW OF LITERATURE Lumbar back pain emanating from the SIJ can be surgically treated via a percutaneous approach in the appropriately selected patient with minimal morbidity and acceptabl...

Patient Reported Outcomes (PROs) are widely used in medical outcome studies, and usually take the form of administered of self-completed questionnaires. The data that these questionnaires produce is of the type known as ordinal scaling, where magnitudes of the attribute may be ascertained. At the same time, most outcome studies rely on the calculation of means, standard deviations, change score...

pierre-gerlier forest has put forward the case that we are on the brink of a revolution in health policy that will be the result of the interplay of five factors. i would not challenge any of them but would emphasize the need to address socio-economic health inequalities, which have the potential to become a major cost driver in a time of growing economic inequality. to dr. forest’s list, i wou...

background multiple classifications can be used to define the magnitude of aortic injury. the vancouver classification (vc) is a new and simplified computed tomography-based blunt aortic injury (bai) grading system correlating with clinical outcomes. objectives the objectives of this study are: 1) to describe the severity of aortic injury in a center with a predominantly surgical approach to ba...