Montreal Accord on Patient-Reported Outcomes (PROs) use series – Paper 8: patient-reported outcomes in electronic health records can inform clinical and policy decisions
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Ahmed, S., Ware, P., Gardner, W., Witter, J., Bingham III, C. O., Kairy, D., & Bartlett, S. J. (2017). Montreal Accord on Patient-Reported Outcomes (PROs) use series–Paper 8: patient-reported outcomes in electronic health records can inform clinical and policy decisions. Journal of clinical epidemiology, 89, 160-167.
Background
Given that the goal of health care systems is to improve and maintain the health of the populations they serve, the indicators of performance must include outcomes that are meaningful to patients. The growth of health technologies provides an unprecedented opportunity to integrate the patient voice into clinical care by linking electronic health records (EHRs) to patient-reported outcome (PRO) data collection. However, PRO data must be relevant, meaningful, and actionable for those who will have to invest the time and effort to collect it.