Can the outcome of primary care be measured by a Patient Reported Outcome Measure?

摘要

There is increasing interest in using Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) as an indicator of the effectiveness of health care, underpinned by the principle that the patient’s experience of outcome, as opposed to the absence of disease, is a key measure of success. Most PROMs do not measure outcome directly, but collect patient self-reported health status before and after an intervention or episode of care, with the change between the scores providing the outcome.