Using Patient-Reported Outcomes to Improve Health Care Quality

Patient-reported outcomes measures (PROMs) are a critical way to assess whether clinicians are improving the health of patients. Unlike process measures, which capture provider productivity and adherence to the standards of recommended care, or patient experience measures, which focus on aspects of care delivery such as communication, PROMs attempt to capture whether the services provided actually improved patients' health and sense of well-being. Read more »

Q&A: Developing Patient-Reported Outcomes Measures

Quality Matters asked Eugene Nelson, D.Sc., M.P.H., director of the Population Health Measurement Program at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, about the benefits of patient-reported outcomes measures and what it will take to promote their widespread use in the U.S. Read more »

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