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. 2014 Feb 10:5:7-15.
doi: 10.2147/PROM.S55069. eCollection 2014.

Harmonizing and consolidating the measurement of patient-reported information at health care institutions: a position statement of the Mayo Clinic

David T Eton  1 , Timothy J Beebe  1 , Philip T Hagen  2 , Michele Y Halyard  3 , Victor M Montori  4 , James M Naessens  1 , Jeff A Sloan  5 , Carrie A Thompson  6 , Douglas L Wood  7
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Harmonizing and consolidating the measurement of patient-reported information at health care institutions: a position statement of the Mayo Clinic

David T Eton et al. Patient Relat Outcome Meas. .

Abstract

Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) capture how patients perceive their health and their health care; their use in clinical research is longstanding. Today, however, PROs increasingly are being used to inform the care of individual patients, and document the performance of health care entities. We recently wrote and internally distributed an institutional position statement titled "Harmonizing and Consolidating the Measurement of Patient-Reported Outcomes at Mayo Clinic: A Position Statement for the Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery". The statement is meant to educate clinicians, clinical teams, and institutional administrators about the merits of using PROs in a systematic manner for clinical care and quality measurement throughout the institution. The present article summarizes the most important messages from the statement, describing PROs and their use, identifying practical considerations for implementing them in routine practice, elucidating potential barriers to their use, and formulating strategies to overcome these barriers. The lessons learned from our experience - including pitfalls, challenges, and successes - may inform other health care institutions that are interested in systematically using PROs in health care delivery science and practice.

Keywords: health care quality; patient-centered; patient-reported outcomes; quality of life; questionnaire.

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The Patient-Reported Outcome-Quality of Life Tool. Note: Reproduced from Ridgeway JL, Beebe TJ, Chute CG, et al. A brief patient-reported outcomes quality of life (PROQOL) instrument to improve patient care. PLoS Med. 2013;10(11):e1001548. © 2013 Ridgeway et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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