Patient-reported outcome measures can help to identify community health needs in public health topics including injury, chronic disease, and communicable disease. They are currently collected in major national surveys in
Clinical applications of PROs include individual level use for medical decision making and aggregate use for comparative effectiveness research, program evaluation, quality improvement, and performance assessments. Considerations of feasibility on
Based on themes arising from the Montreal Accord proceedings we describe factors that influence the adoption of PROs, and how PROs can have a positive effect by enhancing communication and
We outline different health outcomes and describe how multiple perspectives can be harnessed to optimize accuracy of key data collected about patients with chronic conditions. The terms health status, health-related
This is the introductory paper in a series of eight papers. In this series, we integrate the theoretical design options with the practice of conducting pragmatic trials. For most new market-approved