Results 31 to 40 of about 10,678,298 (255)

Patient-Reported Outcomes in Orthopaedics [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Bone and Joint Surgery, 2018
➤ Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) assess a patient’s perspective of health, function, and quality of life associated with health conditions and medical interventions.➤ Health-care value is the ratio of health outcomes achieved relative to the total cost of care for a medical condition.➤ Common PRO designs assess general ...
openaire   +2 more sources

A scoping review and mapping exercise comparing the content of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) across heart disease-specific scales

open access: yes, 2020
BACKGROUND: Over the past decade, the importance of person-centered care has led to increased interest in patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs). In cardiovascular care, selecting an appropriate PROM for clinical use or research is challenging because
Mårtensson, Jan,   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Patient-reported outcome measurement [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 2010
Alan Maynard and Karen Bloor1 raise interesting questions, particularly in relation to breast cancer. One issue is that treatment-related toxicities may not become problematic for several years, particularly when radiotherapy is administered. Research so far seems to indicate that hypofractionation causes more long-term problems than hyperfractionation,
openaire   +2 more sources

Using patient-reported outcomes (PROs) to compare the providers of surgery: does the choice of measure matter?

open access: yes, 2013
BACKGROUND: Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) are being used to compare health care providers with little knowledge of how the choice of measure affects such comparisons.
Hutchings, Andrew   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Correlating changes in lung function with patient outcomes in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a pooled analysis. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Background Relationships between improvements in lung function and other clinical outcomes in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are not documented extensively.
Pinault, Gregory   +23 more
core   +2 more sources

Evaluation of the usefulness of EQ-5D as a patient-reported outcome measure using the Paretian classification of health change among patients with chronic heart failure

open access: yes, 2020
The aim of this study was to evaluate the usefulness of EQ-5D as a patient-reported outcome measure using different analytical methods. Especially we used the Paretian Classification of Health Change, to see if this gave better information compared to ...
Dahlström, Ulf   +7 more
core   +1 more source

The feasibility and acceptability of using the Mother-Generated Index (MGI) as a Patient Reported Outcome Measure in a randomised controlled trial of maternity care [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Background: Using patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) to assess Quality of Life (QoL) is well established, but commonly-used PROM item-sets do not necessarily capture what all respondents consider important.
Downe, Soo   +11 more
core   +2 more sources

Patient-reported outcomes in psychiatry

open access: yesDialogues in Clinical Neuroscience, 2014
The recent trend for recognizing the need that patients actively participate in the assessment of the outcome of treatment is a welcome development, not only because it adds valuable data, but also because its recognition of the partnership role that the patients should have in research on outcome of mental illness.
openaire   +3 more sources

General practitioner empathy, patient enablement, and patient-reported outcomes in primary care in an area of high socio-economic deprivation in Scotland - a pilot prospective study using structural equation modelling [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
<b>Objective</b> The aim of this pilot prospective study was to investigate the relationships between general practitioners (GPs) empathy, patient enablement, and patient-assessed outcomes in primary care consultations in an area of high ...
Neumann, M.   +11 more
core   +1 more source

European Standard Clinical Practice Guideline and EXPeRT Recommendations for the Diagnosis and Management of Gastroenteropancreatic Neuroendocrine Neoplasms in Children and Adolescents

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Pediatric gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms (GEP‐NENs) are extremely rare and clinically heterogeneous. Management has largely been extrapolated from adult practice. This European Standard Clinical Practice Guideline (ESCP), developed by the EXPeRT network in collaboration with adult NEN experts, provides (adult) evidence ...
Michaela Kuhlen   +23 more
wiley   +1 more source

Home - About - Disclaimer - Privacy