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Course: Patient-Reported Outcome Measures in Clinical Research

CME Credits: 1.00

Released: 2022-07-15

Health conditions may cause patients to feel ill and have impaired functioning in their daily lives. Thus, it is important to assess how patients are feeling and functioning when evaluating the effects of interventions to prevent or treat health conditions. Aspects of health that patients can report on directly, such as the severity of pain or limitations in physical functioning, are patient-reported outcomes.
The recommended quantitative approach to measure these aspects of health status is to ask patients directly using a standardized questionnaire. Patient-reported outcome measures are reports of “the status of a patient’s health condition that comes directly from the patient without interpretation of the patient’s response by a clinician or anyone else.” An example of a patient-reported outcome measure, the Short Form 36 (SF-36), was used in a randomized clinical trial conducted by Ghogawala et al to compare 2 surgical approaches (ventral or dorsal) for the treatment of cervical spondylotic myelopathy, which is a condition that can cause significant impairments in physical functioning.


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