Patient reported outcomes - experiences with implementation in a University Health Care setting.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) have traditionally been implemented through a manual process of paper and pencil with little standardization throughout a Healthcare System. Each practice has asked patients specific questions to understand the patient's health as it pertains to their specialty. These data were rarely shared and there has not been a comparison of patient's health across different specialty domains. We sought to leverage interoperable electronic systems to provide a standardization of PRO assessments across sites of care.

Methods

University of Utah Health is comprised of four hospitals, 12 community clinics, over 400,000 unique annual patients, and more than 5000 providers. The enterprise wide implementation of PROs started in November of 2015. Patients ca

SUBMITTER: Biber J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6097980 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature