OBJECTIVE Meniscal tears occur frequently in the population and the most common surgical treatment, arthroscopic partial meniscectomy, is performed in approximately two million cases worldwide each year. The purpose of this systematic review is to summarise and critically appraise the evidence for the use of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) in patients with meniscal tears. DESIGN A s...

OBJECTIVES Treatment of oral mucositis (OM) is challenging. In order to develop and test useful treatment approaches, the development of reliable, reproducible and simpler methods than are currently available for assessment of OM is important. A Patient-Reported Oral Mucositis Symptom (PROMS) scale was assessed in patients with head and neck cancer to determine if the patient-reported OM experi...

BACKGROUND Urinary tract infection (UTI) is a common condition in primary care. Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) are crucial in the evaluation of interventions to improve diagnosis, treatment and prognosis of UTI. The aim of this study was to identify an existing condition-specific PROM to measure symptom severity, bothersomeness and impact on daily activities for adult patients with s...

s for plenary sessions P1 Using Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) in cancer care Galina Velikova Leeds Institute of Cancer & Pathology, University of Leeds and Leeds Teaching Hospitals, Leeds, UK Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017, 15(Suppl 1):P1 Monitoring of patients’ physical and psychological problems during and after cancer treatment is essential in modern oncology practice. ...

To review existing patient reported outcomes measures (PROMs) used in dysphonic populations to assess the procedures used in their development and the extent to which these meet current development standards for content generation and psychometric evaluation. The study is a systematic review. A systematic review of Medline, Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health, and Health and Psychosocia...

A home telehealth system allowing chronic-obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and heart-failure (HF) patients to communicate patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) has been implemented in routine care at Linköping University Hospital, Sweden [1]. The system makes use of digital pen technology and Health Diary forms printed on paper for allowing even elderly severely ill patients to use the ...

Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) are now routinely collected in the English National Health Service and used to compare and reward hospital performance within a high-powered pay-for-performance scheme. However, PROMs are prone to missing data. For example, hospitals often fail to administer the pre-operative questionnaire at hospital admission, or patients may refuse to participate or ...

PROMS, a computer-music service under development at the University of Bonn, Germany, aims at designing and implementing PROcedures for Music Search. This paper discusses an eÆcient algorithm for searching a music pattern, e.g., a melody or a sequence of chords, in a large database of polyphonic music, given in a score-like format. Our algorithm is a variant of the now classic inverted le index...

▸ Additional material is published online only. To view please visit the journal online ABSTRACT Objective Our aim was to see if the reporting of better experiences by elective surgical patients was associated with better outcomes (effectiveness and safety). The objectives were to: describe the distribution of experience scores and any association with patients' characteristics; determine the r...