In the United States, the National Institutes of Health’s Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement System (PROMIS) offers an example of how collaborators can work across distances to form essential partnerships, create
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
There is increasing interest in integrating patient-reported outcomes (PROs) in electronic health records (EHRs), but best practices for doing so are unclear. Recently, several meetings have reviewed the use of
Today’s rating scales are scientifically and mathematically conceptualized. They are designed to be…something like multi-dimensional “rulers” that are either individually, or collectively, integrated with the sensitivity and utility of
The main thing about rating scales is exactly what Dr. Stephen Covey teaches over and over: “The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.” Every scale
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