Collecting patient-reported outcome measures in the electronic health record: Lessons from the NIH pragmatic trials Collaboratory
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Zigler CK, Adeyemi O, Boyd AD, Braciszewski JM, Cheville A, Cuthel AM, Dailey DL, Del Fiol G, Ezenwa MO, Faurot KR, Justice M, Ho PM, Lawrence K, Marsolo K, Patil CL, Paek H, Richesson RL, Staman KL, Schlaeger JM, and O'Brien EC. Collecting patient-reported outcome measures in the electronic health record: Lessons from the NIH pragmatic trials Collaboratory. Contemp Clin Trials 2023; 107426.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2-1-2024
Publication Title
Contemp Clin Trials
Abstract
The NIH Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory supports the design and conduct of 27 embedded pragmatic clinical trials, and many of the studies collect patient reported outcome measures as primary or secondary outcomes. Study teams have encountered challenges in the collection of these measures, including challenges related to competing health care system priorities, clinician's buy-in for adoption of patient-reported outcome measures, low adoption and reach of technology in low resource settings, and lack of consensus and standardization of patient-reported outcome measure selection and administration in the electronic health record. In this article, we share case examples and lessons learned, and suggest that, when using patient-reported outcome measures for embedded pragmatic clinical trials, investigators must make important decisions about whether to use data collected from the participating health system's electronic health record, integrate externally collected patient-reported outcome data into the electronic health record, or collect these data in separate systems for their studies.
Medical Subject Headings
Humans; Research Design; Electronic Health Records; Delivery of Health Care; Patient Reported Outcome Measures
PubMed ID
38160749
ePublication
ePub ahead of print
Volume
137
First Page
107426
Last Page
107426
