Digestive and liver disease : official journal of the Italian Society of Gastroenterology and the Italian Association for the Study of the Liver
34588153
BACKGROUND: Messages from an Internet forum are raw material that emerges in a natural setting (i.e., non-induced by a research situation).
BACKGROUND: Assessing patient-reported outcomes (PROs) through interviews or conversations during clinical encounters provides insightful information about survivorship.
Most states have legalized medical cannabis, yet little is known about how medical cannabis use is documented in patients' electronic health records (EHRs). We used natural language processing (NLP) to calculate the prevalence of clinician-documente...
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Patient-reported experience measures have the potential to guide improvement in health care delivery. Many patient-reported experience measures are limited by the presence of strong ceiling effects that limit their analytic...
Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) enable providers to identify differences in treatment effectiveness, postoperative recovery, quality of life, and patient satisfaction. By allowing a shift from disease-specific factors to the patient perspective, PRO...
PURPOSE: Symptoms are vital outcomes for cancer clinical trials, observational research, and population-level surveillance. Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) are valuable for monitoring symptoms, yet there are many challenges to collecting PROs at sca...
Non-preference-based patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) are popular in health outcomes research. These measures, however, cannot be used to estimate health state utilities, limiting their usefulness for economic evaluations. Mapping PROMs to a...
BMC medical informatics and decision making
35840972
BACKGROUND: Evaluating patients' experiences is essential when incorporating the patients' perspective in improving healthcare. Experiences are mainly collected using closed-ended questions, although the value of open-ended questions is widely recogn...
The Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
36727887
Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) assign objective measures to patient's subjective experiences of health, pain, disability, function, and quality of life. PROMs can be useful for providers in shared decision making, outcome assessment, and i...