Health Literacy and Patient -Reported Outcomes

Author(s):  
Maria Irene Bellini ◽  
Andre Kubler

Modern healthcare needs to identify parameters for high-quality care. Quality improvement is the key for advancing in healthcare, and the new assessment tool shifts from a disease-centered outcome to a patient-centered outcome. Clinical outcome such as morbidity and mortality are directly connected and interdependent from patient-reported outcomes: well-informed patients who decide with their healthcare provider what treatment is best for them have better outcomes and higher patient satisfaction rates. These subjective data collected by rigorous, meaningful, and scientific methods and presented in a utilizable format can be used to create care objectives towards which both the surgeon and their patient can travel. Time has come to carry patient-centered outcomes from research into decision making and daily care plans. This chapter outlines a focus beyond life-prolonging therapy, aiming to minimize the negative effects of treatment, optimize quality of life, and align medical decisions with patient expectations.

Author(s):  
Maria Irene Bellini ◽  
Andre Kubler

Modern healthcare needs to identify parameters for high-quality care. Quality improvement is the key for advancing in healthcare, and the new assessment tool shifts from a disease-centered outcome to a patient-centered outcome. Clinical outcome such as morbidity and mortality are directly connected and interdependent from patient-reported outcomes: well-informed patients who decide with their healthcare provider what treatment is best for them have better outcomes and higher patient satisfaction rates. These subjective data collected by rigorous, meaningful, and scientific methods and presented in a utilizable format can be used to create care objectives towards which both the surgeon and their patient can travel. Time has come to carry patient-centered outcomes from research into decision making and daily care plans. This chapter outlines a focus beyond life-prolonging therapy, aiming to minimize the negative effects of treatment, optimize quality of life, and align medical decisions with patient expectations.


2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin J. Carney ◽  
Kate E. Golden ◽  
Jason M. Weissler ◽  
Michael A. Lanni ◽  
Andrew R. Bauder ◽  
...  

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn Yorkston ◽  
Carolyn Baylor

Patient-reported outcome measures contain information that comes directly from the patient without interpretation by anyone else. These measures are an important part of a clinicians' arsenal of assessment approaches and are critical in the development of patient-centered approaches to intervention. In this introduction to patient-reported outcome measurement tools, a history is provided of this approach to measurement and its place within the context of clinical research and practice. The process of instrument development and application will be reviewed, along with examples of measurement tools from the field of neurological communication disorders. This introduction is supplemented by references that provide interested readers with more detailed information.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Kleinert ◽  
Peter Bartz-Bazzanella ◽  
Cay von der Decken ◽  
Johannes Knitza ◽  
Torsten Witte ◽  
...  

UNSTRUCTURED Real-world data is crucial to continuously improve patients' management with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMD). The German RHADAR registry encompasses a network of rheumatologists and researchers in Germany providing pseudonymized real-world patient data and allowing a timely and continuous improvement in RMD patients' care. The RHADAR modules allow automated anamnesis and adaptive coordination of appointments regarding individual urgency levels. Further modules focus on the collection and integration of electronic patient-reported outcomes in between consultations. The digital RHADAR modules ultimately allow a patient-centered, adaptive approach to integrated medical care starting as early as possible in the disease course. Such a closed-loop system consisting of various modules along the whole patient pathway enables comprehensive and timely patient management in an unprecedented manner.


2018 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-40
Author(s):  
Elena Mancini ◽  
Roberta Martina Zagarella

L’articolo ha l’obiettivo di mettere in luce potenzialità e criticità dell’inclusione della prospettiva dei pazienti nella ricerca sulle malattie rare e sui farmaci orfani. A tal fine, nella prima parte, si propone un’analisi epistemologica dell’utilizzo dei racconti dell’esperienza individuale della malattia nella ricerca scientifica e nei trial clinici, facendo emergere, anche attraverso gli strumenti della medicina narrativa, le sfide teoriche e operative poste dall’inclusione della soggettività del paziente e del vissuto di malattia nonché l’importanza della valorizzazione della prospettiva del paziente, sia in generale sia nella ricerca sulle malattie rare e sui farmaci orfani. Nella seconda parte, il testo analizza in particolare il ruolo degli esiti riportati dai pazienti o Patient Reported Outcomes (PROs), misure per la valutazione complessiva della salute basate sulla prospettiva dei pazienti stessi, incentrandosi sulla sperimentazione clinica nel campo delle malattie rare. In questo contesto, infatti, i racconti di malattia, raccolti e valorizzati da fonti istituzionali e associazioni di pazienti, hanno contribuito a far emergere importanti questioni critiche e difficoltà nell’impiego di outcome centrati sul paziente nello sviluppo di nuovi farmaci e trattamenti, generando una serie di documenti e raccomandazioni relative al loro utilizzo per il benessere della comunità dei malati rari. ---------- This paper aims to highlight the potentiality and criticality of including patients’ perspective in rare diseases and orphan drugs research. In the first part, we propose an epistemological analysis of individual narrations of disease experience as they are used in scientific research and clinical trials. With the help of narrative medicine approach, this analysis points out theoretical and operational challenges of a perspective that includes patient’s subjectivity and illness experience. Furthermore, it reveals the significance of patients’ standpoints in general and in rare diseases as well as in the orphan drugs research. The second part of our article focuses on the role of the Patient reported Outcomes (PROs) – which are measures for the health’s overall assessment based on patient’s perspective – by investigating the impact on clinical trials for rare diseases. In this context, illness stories, which are collected and promoted by institutional sources and patients’ associations, contribute to underline important critical issues at stake in the employment of patient-centered outcomes both in new drugs and in the treatments development. Moreover, these stories are crucial to elaborate documents and recommendations concerning the use of PROs for the rare patients’ community welfare.


2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 55-55
Author(s):  
Dava Szalda ◽  
Marilyn M. Schapira ◽  
Linda A. Jacobs ◽  
Carolyn Vachani ◽  
James M. Metz ◽  
...  

55 Background: Young adult survivors (YAS) are at risk for side effects of cancer therapy and poor post treatment self-management relative to older adult survivors (AS). Survivorship care plans (SCPs) have proved feasible to provide education on symptom management, but the characteristics of YAS who utilize SCPs and patient-reported outcomes (PROs) of YAS via SCPs remains unstudied. Methods: Patient-reported characteristics and outcomes of YAS, age 18 to 39 years, who used a free online SCP generator (OncoLife), between May 2010 and May 2012 are reported. PROs of YAS were compared to AS, age 40-70 years, via frequencies and chi-squared analyses. PROs were queried upon generation of SCP based on diagnosis and treatments received. Results: YAS (n = 1,445, Mage= 31.5 years) and AS (n = 6301, Mage= 56.3 years) were primarily female (69% vs. 78%), Caucasian (76% vs. 86%) and an average of 2.6 years (range 0-20years) vs. 3.2 years (range 0-46 years) since diagnosis and treatment. Most common diagnoses were breast cancer, testicular cancer, lymphoma, thyroid cancer, and sarcomas in YAS vs. breast, colon, lymphoma, prostate, and lung cancer in AS. Three-quarters (75%) of YAS and 70% of AS generated the SCP themselves with the remaining SCPs generated by health care providers. Less than a quarter (22%) of YAS or AS (18%) reported previously receiving a treatment summary. The most commonly endorsed PROs in YAS and AS were neurocognitive changes and fatigue. Fewer YAS than AS endorsed pulmonary concerns and male sexual side effects. The majority of PROs were reported at similar proportions by YAS and AS (see table). Conclusions: In patients who generated an OncoLife SCP, YAS reported similar rates of treatment-related side effects to those reported by AS demonstrating SCPs as a mechanism to capture and address off-therapy issues for all survivors. [Table: see text]


2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. e527-e535 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abigail T. Berman ◽  
Cristina M. DeCesaris ◽  
Charles B. Simone ◽  
Carolyn Vachani ◽  
Gloria DiLullo ◽  
...  

Purpose: Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death and is a significant source of morbidity. Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) have been shown to be prognostic for survival. We have analyzed emerging patterns of longitudinal PROs collected in the development of survivorship care plans (SCPs). Methods: OncoLife and the LIVESTRONG Care Plans are Internet-based programs designed to generate unique SCPs. We selected SCPs from patients identifying as survivors of primary lung cancer. Patient-reported demographics and treatment and toxicity data were examined. Effects were categorized by the physiologic system that they affected. Results: Six hundred eighty-nine plans were created for users self-identifying as survivors of primary lung cancer. Average time from diagnosis to reporting was 1.68 years (range, 0 to 24 years). Most were white (85.9%), well educated (61.1% “some college” or higher), and lived in the United States (90.7%). Patients underwent chemotherapy (75.8%), radiotherapy (54.7%), and surgery (54.4%). Neurocognitive symptoms (eg, fatigue, cognitive changes) were the most common (48.8%), especially among those receiving chemotherapy, followed by musculoskeletal/dermatologic symptoms (14.1%) and thoracic symptoms (13.5%). Only 11.2% were initially offered an SCP. Of those offered SCPs, 54.5% were offered by their health care provider, and most often were at a non–university-based cancer center (66.2%). Conclusion: For patients with lung cancer worldwide, it is feasible to obtain PROs and to create SCPs through an Internet-based program. As patients with lung cancer achieve improved survival, further attention should be paid to PROs. Surprisingly, neurocognitive symptoms seem to be the most common issues and therefore the most important to address. Increased effort should be made to provide SCPs, particularly in urban and university cancer center settings.


2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 419-425 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graham Seow-Hng Goh ◽  
Ming Han Lincoln Liow ◽  
Hamid Rahmatullah Bin Abd Razak ◽  
Darren Keng-Jin Tay ◽  
Ngai-Nung Lo ◽  
...  

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