"You need a team": perspectives on interdisciplinary symptom management using patient-reported outcome measures in hemodialysis care-a qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) are standardized instruments used for assessing patients' perspectives on their health status at a point in time, including their health-related quality of life, symptoms, functionality, and physical, mental, and social wellbeing. For people with kidney failure receiving hemodialysis, addressing high symptom burden and complexity relies on care team members integrating their expertise to achieve common management goals. In the context of a program-wide initiative integrating PROMs into routine hemodialysis care, we aimed to explore patients' and clinicians' perspectives on the role of PROMs in supporting interdisciplinary symptom management.

Methods

We employed a qualitative descriptive approach using semi-structured inter

SUBMITTER: Baragar B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9859959 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature