Surgeon's experiences of receiving peer benchmarked feedback

"Policy makers and researchers need to increase professionals’ awareness of the numerous purposes and benefits of using PROMs"

Surgeon's experiences of receiving peer benchmarked feedback using patient-reported outcome measures: a qualitative study
MB Boyce, JP Browne, J Greenhalgh
Implementation Science, 2014, 9: 84

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Relationship between patient reported experience and patient reported outcomes in elective surgery

"our results have implications for the concerns of some clinicians who have questioned whether the effectiveness and safety of their practice (measured using PROMs) may instead reflect patients’ views of their level of satisfaction with the experience of care"

Relationship between patient reported experience (PREMs) and patient reported outcomes (PROMs) in elective surgery
N Black, M Varaganum, A Hutchings
BMJ Quality and Safety, 2014; 23: 534-542

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Video guides to Patient Reported Outcome Measures (videos)

The Health and Social Care Information Centre have produced some brief instructional videos to help you use and access their Patient Reported Outcomes Measures (PROMs) publications.

Access the videos here.

Patient reports of the outcomes of treatment: a structured review of approaches

"The purpose of this was to identify suitable candidate questions for a short instrument to tap patient evaluations of in-patient hospital interventions."

Patient reports of the outcomes of treatment: a structured review of approaches
H Lloyd, C Jenkinson, M Hadi, E Gibbons, R Fitzpatrick
Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 2014, 12:5

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Patient-reported outcomes in meta-analyses

"Systematic reviews and meta-analyses of randomized trials that include patient-reported outcomes (PROs) often provide crucial information for patients and clinicians facing challenging health care decisions. "

Patient-reported outcomes in meta-analyses - Part 1: assessing risk of bias and combining outcomes
BC Johnston, DL Patrick, JW Busse, HJ Schunemann, A Agarwal, GH Guyatt
Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 2013, 11:109

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New patient-reported outcome measure for patients with pressure ulcers

"The PU-QOL instrument provides a standardised method for assessing PROs, reflecting the domains in a pressure ulcer-specific conceptual framework."

Development and validation of a new patient-reported outcome measure for patients with pressure ulcers: the PU-QOL instrument
C Gorecki, et al
Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 2013, 11:95

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Review of patient-reported outcome measures in chronic hepatitis C

"Further research is needed to ensure that chronic hepatitis C clinical trials evaluate concepts that are important to patients and include measures that have evidence supporting content validity, reliability, construct validity, and responsiveness."

Review of patient-reported outcome measures in chronic hepatitis C
L Kleinman, S Mannix, Y Yuan, S Kummer, G L'Italien, D Revicki
Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 2012, 10:92

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The NICE Commissioning Outcomes Framework Indicator Programme

The Commissioning Outcomes Framework (COF) Advisory Committee have recommended a set of 44 indicators, which have been identified from NICE quality standards, the NHS Outcomes Framework and other existing indicator collections such as national audits. A selection of final indicators will be considered by the NHS Commissioning Board in autumn 2012 for inclusion in the 2013/14 COF.

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The importance of rating scales in measuring patient-reported outcomes

"The development of appropriate rating scale categories may seem straightforward; however, in the absence of high quality evidence, or consensus for the optimal methods, PRO developers take many different approaches."

The importance of rating scales in measuring patient-reported outcomes
J Khadka, VK Gothwal, C McAlinden, EL Lamoureux, K Pesudovs
Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 2012, 10:80

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