CPQR supports the consistent use of PRO in Canadian radiation treatment programs to improve the clinical encounter for patients. Promoting the use of the same Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROM) across the country will also help facilitate big data analysis…
Document Topic: Patient-reported outcomes
Published by the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer, Living with Cancer: A Report on the Patient Experience is the first in a series looking at Canadian cancer care exclusively from the patient perspective, illustrating the experience of those individuals and families…
Symptoms of cancer are not just physical. Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) allow clinicians to go beyond basic symptom screening and also understand the psychosocial and practical concerns of the patient.
With a complete picture of the cancer journey in detail, the…
ID: PRO.2020.09.01
This document provides guidance for radiation treatment programs on how they can enhance and optimize the collection and use of patient reported outcomes (PRO)s in routine clinical practice.
A PRO is defined as any report of a patient’s…