Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) are proposed as key measures of healthcare quality to improve patient-centered care and doctor-provider communication in cardiovascular disease.
Integrating patient-reported outcomes into routine clinical care can enhance doctor-patient communication and serve as a metric for healthcare quality in cardiovascular disease.
Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) are elicited directly from patients so they can describe their overall health status, including their symptoms, function, and quality of life. While commonly used as end points in clinical trials, PROs can play an important role in routine clinical care, population health management, and as a means for quantifying the quality of patient care. In this review, we propose that PROs be used to improve patient-centered care in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases given their importance to patients and society and their ability to improve doctor- provider communication. Furthermore, given the current variability in patients' health status across different clinics and the fact that PROs can be improved by titrating therapy, we contend that PROs have a key opportunity to serve as measures of healthcare quality.
Garcia et al. (Fri,) conducted a review in Cardiovascular disease. Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) was evaluated. Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) are proposed as key measures of healthcare quality to improve patient-centered care and doctor-provider communication in cardiovascular disease.