Cemplicity has learnt that a successful patient-reported outcomes measures (PROMs) programme boils down to two critical factors: Strategic collaboration with clinicians and the optimisation of response rates. It sounds simplistic, that clinical staff and patients must be involved if PROMs are to have an impact on clinical outcomes but, like all good insights, the insight is simple but ...
Patient reporting of SSI is scientific - and here is why. Over the past few months, I’ve been immersing myself in the field of surgical site infection (SSI) surveillance. (Fortunately, I didn’t start the project until after my hip replacement, as there have been plenty of patient stories that might have put me off.) We’ve had quite a ...
As World Patient Safety Day is once again marked around the globe, we reflect on how our Surgical Site Infection (SSI) Programme helped one of our clients live its mantra of “do no harm.” For MercyAscot, one of New Zealand’s largest private surgical facilities, nothing is more important than patient safety. “It is core. We live and breathe ...
Due to the plethora of evidence of the value of transitioning from fee-for-service to value-based funding mechanisms in healthcare, funders/payers are increasingly looking to mechanisms providers are paid based on patient health outcomes. Effectively, this means that rewards are given for helping patients improve their health, reducing readmission rates, adhering to medicine and feeling like the result of ...
Health organisations worldwide are recognising the value of incorporating Patient-Reported Outcomes (PROs), or Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs), into their clinical healthcare practices. In particular, orthopaedic clinics are prime candidates for PRO-enhanced care as much of the success of orthopaedic procedures relies on the patient's commitment to follow their recovery programme. However, many clinicians object to the use of ...
Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) are becoming increasingly popular for payers and regulators to assess the value of services being delivered. This can create tension, if the clinical community feels they are being forced down a particular road that is not conducive to better decision making or that cuts across the relationship between doctor and patient. It doesn’t have ...
Today, many of us either know of someone living with a long-term condition or are dealing with one ourselves. Medical advancement and healthier lifestyles enable us to live longer with conditions ranging from arthritis and type-2 diabetes to cancer, which is no longer the death sentence it once was. While this is an achievement, it's also placing more ...
While the benefits of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) programmes are well established and significant, at Cemplicity we often hear frustrations from health providers about how they can’t agree on how best to deliver PROMs across their organisation. The challenges arise because PROMs programmes are typically trying to solve two valid, but often conflicting, objectives: System-level quality improvement, value ...
There are literally thousands of survey tools out there designed to allow patients to self-report on their own health outcomes. Their names don’t roll off the tongue – consider PROMIS-29, CAW, AQOL-4D, EORTC QLCC-30 … It’s pretty clear that these names originated from the academic community, not from marketing. That said, there was a healthy dose of dark ...
I spend much of my time talking to clinicians and hospital managers about the benefits of asking patients about their own health through patient reported outcome measures programmes. However, we also encounter scepticism that, by enabling patients to rate their own health, better outcomes will be achieved. A new study, Basch (2017 pp.197-198), shines a clear light on ...
