Patient Reported Outcomes

ACO Enrollment Doesn’t Help Mental Healthcare Access, PROs

November 7, 2023 - Being enrolled in an accountable care organization (ACO) won’t do much to improve a patient’s mental healthcare access or symptom burden; in fact, ACO enrollment has proven to hamper access to care and decrease patient-reported outcomes for folks with depression and anxiety disorders, a new Health Affairs study says. The data, obtained...

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How Vanderbilt Logged 1M Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs)

by Sarai Rodriguez

As the healthcare world gradually shifts its focus toward patient-centered care, Vanderbilt's clinician-patient communications tool has achieved a significant milestone, recording its millionth...

Barriers to Patient-Reported Outcomes Measures for Gender-Affirming Care

by Sara Heath

Gender-affirming care offers a great use case for implementing patient-reported outcomes measures (PROMs), but PROMs for gender-affirming care need a bit of a tune-up before that can fully happen, per...

Only 1% of Docs Use Patient-Reported Outcomes Measures (PROMs)

by Sara Heath

The healthcare industry is making significant headway in collecting patient-reported outcomes measures (PROMs), but clinicians are making little use of that data, limiting enhancements in patient...

New Palliative Care Patient-Reported Outcomes Measures Launch

by Sara Heath

The American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) has finalized two patient-reported outcomes measures set to improve the quality of care delivered to folks in hospice care, the...

Language Barriers Limit Patient-Reported Outcomes in Cancer Care

by Sarai Rodriguez

Patients with limited English proficiency (LEP) are excluded from patient-reported outcome (PRO) measures due to language barriers. Leaving them out reduces the opportunity for better cancer treatment...

Are Proxy, Caregiver Responses for Patient-Reported Outcomes Valuable?

by Sara Heath

Proxy reports are a good stand-in for patient-reported outcomes when a patient can’t report their own symptoms or is otherwise incapacitated, researchers from the Regenstrief Institute wrote in...

Distinguishing Patient Experience, Patient-Reported Outcomes, and PGHD

by Sara Heath

In the era of patient-centered care, it is critical for medical institutions to collect key insights from the patient. Those insights usually include patient experience data, patient-reported outcomes (PROs), and patient-generated health...

Why Patient-Reported Outcomes are Key in Specialty Pharmacy

by Sara Heath

Raking in about 50 percent of all pharmacy costs for only about 2.5 percent of all prescribed patients, the specialty pharmacy arena is one ripe for the development and use of patient-reported outcomes to assess treatment efficacy,...