What is it about?
Patient t Repoted Outcome Measures are an important way to capture how effective treatment is . Pain clinics have found this hard to do because chronic pain is such a multidimensional experience and treatment can affect one dimension but not another . We tried out PROMs in all pain clinic in England Wales following up patients over a year. This told us that people's quality of life is poor, some people imporve a fair bit over that time. However the numbers who completed the PROMs were small meaning we cannot rely on this study to give us a true picture, We suggest a number of ways to improve collection of information from patients.
Featured Image
Why is it important?
Whilst people publish PROMs reports, no-one has critically looked at how effective that collection is ...we need to do better
Perspectives
I feel that this is an important area of practice ...more time and funding needs to be devoted to this to make it work for patients. We should do more work with patients to understand what works best for them.
Cathy Price
University of Southampton
Read the Original
This page is a summary of: Implementation of Patient Reported Outcomes (
PROM
s) from Specialist Pain Clinics in England and Wales: experience from a nationwide study, European Journal of Pain, April 2019, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/ejp.1406.
You can read the full text:
Contributors
The following have contributed to this page
