Experimental studies to test interventions for people living with HIV in low- and middle-income countries are essential to ensure appropriate and effective clinical care. The implications of study participation on outcome data in such populations have been discussed theoretically, but rarely empirically examined. We aimed to explore the effects of participating in a randomised controlled trial ...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether patients could self-report physical and mental health assessments in the waiting room and whether these assessments would be associated with modified Rankin Scale (mRS) and Quality of Life in Epilepsy (QOLIE-10) scores. METHODS We offered iPad-based surveys to consecutive adult neurology patients at check-in to collect patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs). ...

BACKGROUND Collecting patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) via computer-based electronic data capture system may improve feasibility and facilitate implementation in clinical care. We report our initial experience about the acceptability of touch-screen tablet computer-based, self-administered questionnaires among patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), including stage 5 CKD treated wi...

BACKGROUND There is a need for better interpretation of orthopedic treatment effects. Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) are already commonly used for patient evaluation. PROMs can be used to determine treatment effects in research as well as in clinical settings by calculating change scores, with pre- and post-treatment evaluation. The smallest detectable change (SDC) and minimal import...

Patient assessment of disease activity in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) may be useful in clinical practice, offering a patient-friendly, location independent, and a time-efficient and cost-efficient means of monitoring the disease. The objective of this study was to identify patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) to assess disease activity in RA and to evaluate the measurement properties of thes...

OBJECTIVES Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) collected in clinical trials should be administered in a standardised way across sites and routinely screened for avoidable missing data in order to maximise data quality/minimise risk of bias. Recent qualitative findings, however, have raised concerns about the consistency of PROM administration in UK trials. The purpose of this study was to...

OBJECTIVE To test whether providing surgeons with peer benchmarked feedback about patient-reported outcomes is effective in improving patient outcomes. DESIGN Cluster randomised controlled trial. SETTING Secondary care--Ireland. PARTICIPANTS Surgeons were recruited through the Irish Institute of Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery, and patients were recruited in hospitals prior to surgery. We ...

The development of accurate quality performance measures in breast cancer surgery is extremely challenging as highlighted by Monica Morrow in a recent editorial 1 . Traditional quality measures in surgical oncology have focused on 30-day morbidity and mortality which are not relevant to breast cancer surgery which is typically associated with low morbidity and mortality. Dr Morrow suggests that...

This systematic review aimed to synthesize the evidence of psychometric properties self-efficacy patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary dise...