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. 2013 Nov;10(11):e1001548.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001548. Epub 2013 Nov 12.

A brief Patient-Reported Outcomes Quality of Life (PROQOL) instrument to improve patient care

Jennifer L Ridgeway  1 , Timothy J Beebe, Christopher G Chute, David T Eton, Lacey A Hart, Marlene H Frost, Daniel Jensen, Victor M Montori, John G Smith, Steven A Smith, Angelina D Tan, Kathleen J Yost, Jeanette Y Ziegenfuss, Jeff A Sloan
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A brief Patient-Reported Outcomes Quality of Life (PROQOL) instrument to improve patient care

Jennifer L Ridgeway et al. PLoS Med. 2013 Nov.

Abstract

Jeff Sloan and colleagues describe the development of the Patient-Reported Outcomes Quality of Life (PROQOL) instrument, which captures and stores patient-recorded outcomes in the medical record for patients with diabetes. Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1. PROQOL domains and item checklist.
Patients select their single biggest concern at that time from these domains (left). They are then presented with a checklist of items related to the selected domain, as in the money domain example presented here (right).
Figure 2
Figure 2. Core set of PROQOL questions.
In addition to identifying their concerns at the time of survey completion, patients are also presented with this core set of quality of life-related questions.
Figure 3
Figure 3. PROQOL report.
PROQOL generates a report displaying the patient's single biggest concern (domain), the selected items in the domain, and suggested actions (left). The biggest concern and the results of the core set of questions are tracked over time. Graphs are used to display changes, and asterisks indicate meaningful change since the last report (a change of two or more points).
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