Patient‐reported outcomes

Abstract

Systematic reviews address a need for health decision makers to be able to access high quality, relevant, accessible and up-to-date information. • Systematic reviews aim to minimize bias through the use of pre-specified research questions and methods that are documented in protocols, and by basing their findings on reliable research. • Systematic reviews should be conducted by a team that includes domain expertise and methodological expertise, who are free of potential conflicts of interest. • People who might makeor be affected bydecisions around the use of interventions should be involved in important decisions about the review. • Good data management, project management and quality assurance mechanisms are essential for the completion of a successful systematic review. 1.1 Why do a systematic review? Systematic reviews were developed out of a need to ensure that decisions affecting people's lives can be informed by an up-to-date and complete understanding of the relevant research evidence. With the volume of research literature growing at an ever-increasing rate, it is impossible for individual decision makers to assess this vast quantity of primary research to enable them to make the most appropriate healthcare decisions that do more good than harm. By systematically assessing this primary research, systematic reviews aim to provide an up-to-date summary of the state of research knowledge on an intervention, diagnostic test, prognostic factor or other health or healthcare topic. Systematic reviews address the main problem with ad hoc searching and selection of research, namely that of bias. Just as primary research studies use methods to avoid bias, so should summaries and syntheses of that research.

Patient-Reported Outcome Measures After Hospitalization During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Survey Among COVID-19 and Non-COVID-19 Patients

“…This can be achieved with validated questionnaires designed to help patients assess their day-to-day physical, and social activities, as well as emotional and mental health. 12 These measures increase our understanding of disease burden as well as promoting advanced person-centered clinical care and research. 13…”

Systematic Review of Conceptual, Age, Measurement and Valuation Considerations for Generic Multidimensional Childhood Patient-Reported Outcome Measures

“…When step (1) in this pragmatic approach could not be applied (i.e. the study used conceptual labels without clearly defining them), we did not automatically apply the conceptual labels given to PROMs by the developer(s).…”

“…Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) enable direct assessment of health status, health-related quality of life (HRQoL) or quality of life (QoL) by patients or individuals [1][2][3]. They are used extensively as outcome instruments and can support patient-centred care [2,4].…”

Measures of falls efficacy, balance confidence, or balance recovery confidence for perturbation-based balance training

“…Selecting the most appropriate measures is imperative to elucidate the psychological impact of PBT to help older people overcome falls ( 9 ). Moreover, a greater use of appropriate fall efficacy measures in PBT research allows “patient-centered” data captured to demonstrate measurable and meaningful improvements ( 34 ). Presenting the perceived capabilities of the individual in real-world falls-related scenarios will provide empirical evidence that the effects of PBT are translatable from a simulated environment to real-life generalization.…”