Patient reported outcomes: integration into clinical practices.

ABSTRACT: Patient-centered care is a growing focus of research and modern surgical practice. To this end, there has been an ever-increasing utilization of patient reported outcomes (PRO) and health-related quality of life metrics (HR-QOL) in thoracic surgery research. Here we describe reasons and methods for integration of PRO measurement into routine thoracic surgical practice, commonly utilized PRO measurement instruments, and several examples of successful integration.

SUBMITTER: Valsangkar N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7711395 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature