Erschienen in:
01.09.2010 | Commentary
Electronic Patient Diaries and Questionnaires — ePRO Now Delivering on the Promise
verfasst von:
Professor Brian Tiplady
Erschienen in:
The Patient - Patient-Centered Outcomes Research
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Ausgabe 3/2010
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Excerpt
The importance of patient-reported outcomes (PRO) measures, such as patient symptom diaries and quality of life (QOL) questionnaires, will hardly need emphasizing to the readers of this journal. PROs are increasingly being collected by electronic methods (ePRO). In this commentary, I consider several topics that arise with the use of ePRO, including different ePRO methods and their impact on data quality; how patients respond to using ePRO methods; and issues around validation of ePRO methods and equivalence to existing paper methods. I shall be dealing here with quantitative methods used as outcome measures in clinical research, not with qualitative methods, or the use of ePRO in routine clinical practice. …