TY - JOUR
T1 - Patient-reported Outcome Measures in Emergency Care Research
T2 - A Primer for Researchers, Peer Reviewers, and Readers
AU - Kim, Howard S.
AU - Courtney, D. Mark
AU - McCarthy, Danielle M.
AU - Cella, David
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 by the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
PY - 2020/5/1
Y1 - 2020/5/1
N2 - Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) are of increasing importance in clinical research because they capture patients’ experience with well-being, illness, and their interactions with health care. Because PROs tend to focus on specific symptoms (e.g., pain, anxiety) or general assessments of patient functioning and quality of life that offer unique advantages compared to traditional clinical outcomes (e.g., mortality, emergency department revisits), emergency care researchers may benefit from incorporation of PRO measures into their research design as a primary or secondary outcome. Patients may also benefit from the ability of PROs to inform clinical practice and facilitate patient decision making, as PROs are obtained directly from the lived experience of other patients with similar conditions or health status. This review article introduces and defines key terminology relating to PROs, discusses reasons for utilizing PROs in clinical research, outlines basic psychometric and practical assessments that can be used to select a specific PRO measure, and highlights examples of commonly utilized PRO measures in emergency care research.
AB - Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) are of increasing importance in clinical research because they capture patients’ experience with well-being, illness, and their interactions with health care. Because PROs tend to focus on specific symptoms (e.g., pain, anxiety) or general assessments of patient functioning and quality of life that offer unique advantages compared to traditional clinical outcomes (e.g., mortality, emergency department revisits), emergency care researchers may benefit from incorporation of PRO measures into their research design as a primary or secondary outcome. Patients may also benefit from the ability of PROs to inform clinical practice and facilitate patient decision making, as PROs are obtained directly from the lived experience of other patients with similar conditions or health status. This review article introduces and defines key terminology relating to PROs, discusses reasons for utilizing PROs in clinical research, outlines basic psychometric and practical assessments that can be used to select a specific PRO measure, and highlights examples of commonly utilized PRO measures in emergency care research.
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U2 - 10.1111/acem.13918
DO - 10.1111/acem.13918
M3 - Article
C2 - 31945245
AN - SCOPUS:85079198470
SN - 1069-6563
VL - 27
SP - 403
EP - 418
JO - Academic Emergency Medicine
JF - Academic Emergency Medicine
IS - 5
ER -