Copyright © 2001 American Heart Association. All rights reserved. Print ISSN: 0009-7322. Online 72514 Circulation is published by the American Heart Association. 7272 Greenville Avenue, Dallas, TX 2001;103;231-237 Circulation Pavie, Thierry Mesana, Daniel Y. Loisance, Dereck R. Wheeldon and Peer M. Portner Jansen, Mario Vigano, Georg M. Wieselthaler, Bruno Reichart, Ettore Vitali, Alain Mario C...

- The International Society of Arthroplasty Registries (ISAR) Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) Working Group have evaluated and recommended best practices in the selection, administration, and interpretation of PROMs for hip and knee arthroplasty registries. The 2 generic PROMs in common use are the Short Form health surveys (SF-36 or SF-12) and EuroQol 5-dimension (EQ-5D). The Working...

from England the authors showed that there was a lack of knowledge and understanding in the women of reproductive age about their disease, medication and effects of these on pregnancy. It is important to discuss the issues related to pregnancy and conception either at diagnosis or when medication is initially prescribed. In our experience some pregnant women tend to stop their medication in fea...

Inadequate antibiotic therapy, generally defined as microbiologically ineffective anti-infective therapy against the causative pathogen, can influence patient outcome. However, the detrimental effects of inadequate antibiotic therapy seem to become weaker in the most severely ill patients with short life expectancies. In addition to severity of illness, other methodological issues should be car...

Patient-reported outcome (PRO) measures are being used more frequently in epidemiological studies, health service research and in clinical trials to evaluate therapeutic interventions from the patient's perspective. In MS, where evaluations of treatments are becoming increasingly important, outcome measures that are rigorous and appropriate to patients are needed. This article examines the valu...

Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) have been identified as being measures of a patient's health status or health-related quality of life, allowing for health status information to be collected from patients before and after an intervention through completion of a questionnaire. The information collected will provide an indication of the outcomes or quality of care delivered to NHS Patien...

STUDY DESIGN A critical review of the current literature. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to determine frequency, trends, and methods of utilization of spine-related PROIs over the last 10 years. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA Patient-reported outcome instruments (PROIs) have become the gold standard to assess the efficacy of various medical and surgical treatments. Currently, however, ...

Scleroderma is a rare progressive connective tissue disorder that more often affects women in their fourth decade of life. Hence pregnancy is rarely encountered with this disorder. This rare disorder leads to fibrosis that involves skin and various internal organs like lungs, heart, kidneys and gastrointestinal tract. Poor pregnancy outcome is reported in literature. Here a case of scleroderma ...

1Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, 35 Centerra Parkway, Suite 300, Lebanon, NH 03766, USA; 2Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health, Lebanon, NH, USA ; 3 Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden ; 4Rare Diseases Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden ; 5Genia, Stockholm, Sweden ; 6Hansen Law, Stockho...

With the increasing prominence of the patients' involvement in the care they receive, the assessment of outcomes based on the patient's perspective using patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs), are increasingly accompanying the traditional clinical ways of measuring health and the effects of treatment on the patient. This article provides an overview as to what PROMs are and the different he...