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Self-reported outcome measures in the health of older people: from research to standard clinical practice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 June 2011

Yasser El Miedany  and
Mathias Toth
Yasser El Miedany*
Affiliation:
Darent Valley Hospital, Dartford, UK Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
Mathias Toth
Affiliation:
Darent Valley Hospital, Dartford, UK
*
Address for correspondence: Dr Y. El Miedany, Consultant Rheumatologist, Darent Valley Hospital, Dartford, Kent DA2 8DA, UK. Email: [email protected]
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Summary

Ageing is creating policy challenges for most developed countries and increasing the pressure on health and social care systems. The health status of patients is best described based on their own reports and quantitative data concerning factors such as functional disability, psychological status, pain, falls or cardiovascular risk, are critical to follow changes in patients’ condition and response to therapy. Standardized information concerning health status and co-morbidity risks can be collected easily and effectively from a ‘patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) questionnaire’ completed by the patient. Such data allow accurate description, months or years later, of changes in status. Without such records, neither the patient nor the health professional can remember the patient's earlier status reliably. This article will discuss the concept of PROMs and how they can be implemented into standard clinical practice.

Keywords

gerontologyPROMspatient reported outcomefalls risk
Type
Psychological and social gerontology
Information
Reviews in Clinical Gerontology , Volume 21 , Issue 4 , November 2011 , pp. 361 - 368
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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