Patients of all ages and sociodemographic backgrounds worldwide are comfortable using digital networks and services. The growth of electronic health (eHealth) technologies provide unprecedented opportunities to systematically collect information via PROMs.
We aimed to investigate whether pen-and-paper methods are the best option because unsupervised paper-based PROM data collection in clinical trials has resulted in unreadable, missing, or faulty data. PROMs are traditionally measured using pen-and-paper questionnaires. They are widely implemented in clinical research, with positive effects on patient-clinician communication and mutual decision making. On a larger scale, PROM data can be used to screen for health problems, compare outcomes between populations, and assess quality of care. At the patient level, the data can be used to monitor individual progress, investigate the effects of medical and surgical interventions, and improve communication between patients and caregivers. Standard intake procedures already include many questionnaires such as generic quality of life questionnaires administered before arthroplastic surgeries. Ĭlinicians use PROMs to guide and audit routine care and support patient-centered care.
In patient-centered care, patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) are the gold standard for efficiently evaluating patients’ feelings, thoughts, and complaints about a clinical intervention or disease.
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