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Measuring what matters

  • Patient reported outcomes (PROs) are generally defined as ‘any report of the status of a patient's health condition that comes directly from the patient, without interpretation of the patient's response by a clinician or anyone else’. A broader definition of PRO also includes ‘any information on the outcomes of health care obtained directly from patients without modification by clinicians or other health care professionals’. Following this approach, PROs encompass subjective perceptions of patients on how they function or feel not only in relation to a health condition but also to its treatment as well as concepts such as health-related quality of life (HrQoL), information on the functional status of a patient, signs and symptoms and symptom burden. PRO measurement instruments (PROMs) are mostly questionnaires and inform about what patients can do and how they feel. PROs and PROMs have not yet found unconditional acceptance and wide use in the field of inborn errors of metabolism. This review summarises the importance and usefulness of PROs in research, drug legislation and clinical care and informs about quality standards, development, and potential methodological shortfalls of PROMs. Inclusion of PROs measured with high-quality, well-selected PROMs into clinical care, drug legislation, and research helps to identify unmet needs, improve quality of care, and define outcomes that are meaningful to patients. The field of IEM should open to new methodological approaches such as the definition of core sets of variables including PROs to be systematically assessed in specific metabolic conditions and new collaborations with PRO experts, such as psychologists to facilitate the systematic collection of meaningful data.

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Author:Martina HuemerORCiD, Florin Bösch
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/jimd.12622
ISSN:0141-8955
ISSN:1573-2665
Parent Title (English):Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease
Subtitle (English):Why and how to include patient reported outcomes in clinical care and research on inborn errors of metabolism
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Year of publication:2023
Release Date:2024/01/31
Tag:HrQol; MetabQol; health literacy; patient education; patient-centredmedicine
Volume:46
Issue:5
First Page:796
Last Page:805
Organisationseinheit:Soziales & Gesundheit
DDC classes:600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 610 Medizin, Gesundheit
Open Access?:ja
Peer review:wiss. Beitrag, peer-reviewed
Huemer, Martina
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - CC BY - NC - ND - 4.0 International - Attribution - NonCommercial –NoDerivs - Namensnennung - Nicht kommerziell - Keine Bearbeitungen