Open AccessPatient reported outcome measures and joint replacement
Author(s) -
Alexandra Șopu
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
romanian journal of military medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2501-2312
pISSN - 1222-5126
DOI - 10.55453/rjmm.2018.121.2.5
Subject(s) - prom , patient reported outcome , outcome (game theory) , perspective (graphical) , medicine , scale (ratio) , family medicine , psychology , nursing , quality of life (healthcare) , physics , mathematics , mathematical economics , quantum mechanics , artificial intelligence , obstetrics , computer science
PRO (Patient Reported Outcome) is a clinically based questionnaire filled directly by patients, and other variant types of measures, in clinics and hospitals that gather patients’ stance on their conditions in treatment. PRO is different from Patient Based Outcomes whereby the latter addresses the patient’s concerns but do not necessarily enquire from them. However, PRO gather strictly from patients themselves through interviews, self-administered questionnaires and other available measures. The patient’s perspective on issues that is significant in enacting certain particular clinical policies and regulations such as approval of a medication/drug. Most PROM constitutes one (one-dimensional) or more underlying assessments (multidimensional) connoted as constructs, which bear several levels of scale to assess degree.