Main description:

A practical, introductory guide to the best use of Patient Reported Outcomes (PROs) to improve the quality of health care and patient health. * Only title to exclusively introduce, explain and show how PROs can be best used to improve healthcare and patient outcomes * Includes real life examples and case studies of PROs in practice * Assesses the growing evidence base for PROs in practice * Editor team from Office of Health Economics (OHE), The King's Fund and King s College London with contributions from practising clinicians, GPs and other healthcare professionals

Contents:

Foreword, Sir Bruce Keogh, vi Foreword, An international perspective, Professor Kalipso Chalkidou,vii Acknowledgements, ix 1 Introduction, 1 2 A primer on patient reported outcomes, 9 3 Patients: information and choice, 27 4 Clinicians: clinical decision making, 41 5 Hospitals: managing clinical quality, 51 6 Commissioners: quality, value for money and fairness, 70 7 Regulation, value for money and productivity, 75 8 Where next for patient reported outcomes?, 88 Appendix 1 PROM questionnaire that is currently completed by patients after undergoing varicose vein surgery, 91 Appendix 2 The EQ-5D-5L(c), 101 Appendix 3 Dr Tim Hughes shared decision-making aid for patients, 103 Index, 107