Background: Head and neck cancer (HNC) and its multimodal treatment substantially impair speech, swallowing, breathing, appearance, and psychosocial well-being. Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) improve symptom monitoring and quality of life...
Background/Objectives: Atrial fibrillation (AF) imposes a substantial long-term clinical and healthcare system burden, recurrent hospitalizations, impaired quality of life, and increasing long-term healthcare costs. Although patient-reported outcome...
Obtaining pre-surgery PROM measures is not always feasible. The aim of this study was to examine if self-reports of change following elective surgery correlate with change scores from a validated PROM (15-item Quality of Recovery (QoR-15)). This cros...
Background: Patient-reported outcomes (pros) are essential to capture the patient’s perspective and to influence care. Although pros and pro measures are known to have many important benefits, they are not consistently being used and there is there n...
In burn scar rehabilitation, electronic patient-reported outcome measures (ePROMs) are increasingly being used in research and clinical settings as part of patient- and family-centred care. These measures can identify patients’ needs and monito...
(1) Background: Digitization is of the utmost importance in improving the transfer of medical data. In order to emphasize the need for the greater implementation of digital solutions, we compared analog PROMs (aPROMs) to electronic PROMs (ePROMs) to...
27 April 2022
(1) Background: Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is lower in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) compared to the general population. In 2011, the KLIK PROM portal was implemented in the Emma Children’s Hospital to monitor and discu...
18 September 2022
Background: Patient-reported outcomes (PRO) assess disease burden and indicate unmet needs. Home-based electronic PRO measures (ePROMs) can support tumor aftercare (TAC). Creating an ePROM is the next step after implementing the software “OncoF...
Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROM) evoke measurements that allow capturing patients’ perspectives on their condition. In endometriosis care, physicians’ understanding of the effect of the disease and the treatment on patients is often poor. The...
Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) have become increasingly important in patient-centred healthcare and health-system performance assessment. However, their implementation at system level remains fragmented and methodologically challenging. Th...
Background: Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) have gained increased importance in assessing outcomes after reconstructive surgery. This also applies to the reconstruction of vulvoperineal defects after resection of gynecological or colorectal...
Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) assessment is becoming increasingly important in neurosurgery following the trend toward patient-centered care, especially in the context of skull base diseases. The current study evaluates the systematic assess...
Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) are subjective assessments of health status or health-related quality of life. In childhood cancer survivors, PROMs can be used to evaluate the adverse effects of cancer treatment and guide cancer survivorshi...
Background: Atrial fibrillation (AF) significantly impacts the clinical and financial burden of healthcare systems worldwide. Patient-reported outcomes (PROMs) are considered a core element of patient-centered care. However, the integration of PROMs...
For advanced cancer inpatients, the established standard for gathering information about symptom burden involves a daily assessment by nursing staff using validated assessments. In contrast, a systematic assessment of patient-reported outcome measure...
Background/Objectives: The aging global population has led to a rising prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), in which biomedical outcomes alone fail to capture patients’ lived experiences. Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) can...
(1) Background: The introduction of highly effective CFTR-modulating therapies (HEMT) has changed the course of the disease for many people with Cystic Fibrosis (pwCF). Attention previously focused on life-threatening conditions of the respiratory sy...
Patient-reported outcomes measures (PROMS) are an important component of the shift from disease-centred to person-centred care. In oncology, PROMS describe the effects of cancer and its treatment from the patient perspective and ideally enable patien...
Introduction: This review specifically focuses on interventional clinical trials in leukemias and myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS), summarizing how patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) have been implemented to evaluate treatment effects rather th...
The collection of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) is a key measurement tool for patient-centred care. At the same time, collecting these measures poses obstacles for many patients, leading to these groups being underrepresented in the data....
Aim: The aim of the study was to synthesize validated patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) for assessing health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in women with endometriosis and to outline their clinical implications. Methods: We conducted a narra...
21 January 2023
Electronically administered patient-reported outcome measures (ePROMs) are effective digital health tools for informing clinicians about cancer patients’ symptoms and facilitating timely patient-centred care. This paper describes the delivery o...
Background: Head and neck cancer (HNC) patients experience distressing symptoms that can significantly impact their health-related quality of life (HRQoL). We analyzed the implementation of a nurse-led consultation (NLC) and explored potential associ...
The present study aimed to compare changes during inpatient rehabilitation between conservatively and surgically treated patients. A total of n = 162 patients with cervical spine complaints were included in the study (n = 107 conservatively treated,...
Background: Value-based sarcoma care requires outcome measures that reflect the patient perspective; however, many sarcoma episodes begin with near-normal function and undergo necessary morbidity for oncologic control, making simple “improvemen...
Background: The aim of this study was to identify pre-operative parameters able to predict length of stay (LoS) based on clinical data and patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) from a scorecard database in patients with significant aortic stenosi...
Family small and medium enterprises (FSMEs) differ from non-family SMEs regarding leadership type, human resource management practices, innovation orientation, change management, information and communication technology deployment, process maturity,...
Background and Objectives: Self-management programs are essential for increasing COPD patient participation and autonomy in making appropriate decisions about their chronic condition. The present study aimed to assess the impact of COPD self-manageme...
Reciprocal relationships between chronic musculoskeletal pain and various sleep disturbances are well established. The Pain and Sleep Questionnaire three-item index (PSQ-3) is a concise, valid, and reliable patient-reported outcome measure (PROM) tha...
19 May 2026
Background: Telemedicine may advance endometriosis care, but few initiatives are integrated in outpatient follow-up. A novel telemedicine approach—tele-patient-reported outcome measures (telePROM)—includes an endometriosis-specific questi...
6 September 2022
Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs), patient-reported experience measures (PREMs) and patient satisfaction surveys provide important information on how care can be improved. However, data collection does not always translate to changes in pract...
Background/Objectives: Cesarean section (CS) is among the most common surgical procedures worldwide and is associated with a markedly increased risk of postpartum infection, including surgical site infection (SSI). International guidelines recommend...
8 February 2023
In 2020, female breast cancer was the most commonly diagnosed cancer worldwide, representing the type of cancer with the highest incidence among women and the second most common cause of cancer death among women in all OECD countries. The conventiona...
The aim of cancer rehabilitation is to help patients regain functioning and social participation. In order to evaluate and optimize rehabilitation, it is important to measure its outcomes in a structured way. In this article, we review the different...
Background: Breast cancer-related lymphedema (BCRL) is a common and debilitating treatment-related adverse event that can profoundly impact quality of life and financial well-being. Although prospective surveillance and early intervention for BCRL ha...
Background/Objective: Breast cancer is one of the leading diseases affecting the Brazilian population and is often diagnosed at advanced stages. Due to its heterogeneity, treatment involves multiple therapeutic modalities, such as chemotherapy, hormo...
The objective of this work was to design and implement a system based on reconfigurable hardware as a study tool for the synchronization of chaotic circuits. Mathematical models were established for one circuit, two synchronized, and multiple synchro...
Synthetic ammonia produced from fossil fuels is essential for agriculture. However, the emissions-intensive nature of the Haber–Bosch process, as well as a depleting supply of these fossil fuels have motivated the production of ammonia using re...
An integrated hybrid membrane process, composed of a diffusion dialysis (DD), a membrane distillation (MD) and a reactive precipitation unit (CSTR), is proposed as a promising solution for the valorization and onsite recycling of pickling waste strea...
Background/Objectives: Musculoskeletal disorders and their surgical treatment significantly affect global disability, healthcare utilization, and costs. Artificial intelligence (AI) is a key enabler of data-driven musculoskeletal care. Their applicat...
Lifestyle interventions can play an important role in improving patients’ health outcomes and helping them to live well with chronic kidney disease (CKD). The key to living well is ‘life participation’, defined as ‘the ability...
Background/Objectives: Uptake of remote cochlear implant (CI) services is feasible in clinical studies, but implementation into regular clinical practice is limited. Effective implementation requires demonstration of at least equivalent outcomes to i...
The aim of this work is to evaluate thermal behaviors and develop a soft sensor for online prediction of LOD (loss-on-drying) in the segmented fluidized bed dryer (Seg-FBD) in the ConsiGma25 line, which is regarded as the intermediate critical qualit...
Dividing wall column (DWC) is an atypical distillation column with an internal, vertical WE partition wall that effectively accommodates two conventional distillation columns into one to improve the thermodynamic efficiency. In previous studies, diff...
To evaluate the adoption of an integrated eHealth platform for televisit/monitoring/consultation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: During the lockdown imposed by the Italian government during the COVID19 pandemic spread, a dedicated multi-profes...
6 September 2022
Mental ill-health is increasingly recognized by policymakers for its significant human and economic toll. The main objective of this study is to capture patient-reported outcomes and experiences on mental health care in Portugal using methods develop...
In order to successfully implement individualized patient rehabilitation and home-based rehabilitation programs, the rehabilitation process should be objectifiable, monitorable and comprehensible. For this purpose, objective measurements are required...
Background and Objectives: Integrated health services are health services that are managed and delivered in a way that ensures patients receive a continuum of health promotion, disease prevention, diagnosis, treatment, disease management, rehabilitat...
Background: Rare cancers combine low incidence with high biological heterogeneity and multi-institutional care trajectories. These features make single-center learning structurally incomplete and render pathway fragmentation a dominant driver of prev...
Digital phenotyping—the moment-by-moment quantification of human phenotypes in situ using data related to activity, behavior, and communications, from personal digital devices, such as smart phones and wearables—has been gaining interest....
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