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EYE
Volume 28, Issue 6, Pages 637-645Publisher
SPRINGERNATURE
DOI: 10.1038/eye.2014.41
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- National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) School for Primary Care Research (SPCR)
- Medical Research Council Midland Hub for Trials Methodology Research (Medical Research Council) [G0800808]
- Department of Health's NIHR Biomedical Research Centre for Ophthalmology at Moorfields Eye Hospital
- UCL Institute of Ophthalmology
- Academy of Medical Sciences (AMS) [AMS-SGCL5-Denniston] Funding Source: researchfish
- Medical Research Council [G0800808] Funding Source: researchfish
- National Institute for Health Research [SPCR-017] Funding Source: researchfish
- MRC [G0800808] Funding Source: UKRI
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Clinical outcomes, such as quantifying the extent of visual field loss by automated perimetry, are valued highly by health professionals, but such measures do not capture the impact of the condition on a patient's life. Patient-reported outcomes describe any report or measure of health reported by the patient, without external interpretation by a clinician or researcher. In this review, we discuss the value of the measures that capture this information (patient-reported outcome measures; PROMs), and why they are important to both the clinician and the researcher. We also consider issues around developing or selecting a PROM for ophthalmic research, the emerging challenges around conducting and reporting PROMs in clinical trials and highlight best practice for their use. Search terms for this review comprised: (1) (patient-reported outcomes OR patient-reported outcome measures) AND (2) randomised controlled trials AND (3) limited to ophthalmic conditions. These terms were expanded as follows: ((('patients'(MeSH Terms) OR 'patients'(All Fields) OR 'patient'(All Fields)) AND ('research report'(MeSH Terms) OR ('research'(All Fields) AND 'report'(All Fields)) OR 'research report'(All Fields) OR 'reported'(All Fields)) AND outcomes(All Fields)) OR ((` patients'(MeSH Terms) OR 'patients'(All Fields) OR 'patient'(All Fields)) AND (` research report'(MeSH Terms) OR ('research'(All Fields) AND 'report'(All Fields)) OR 'research report'(All Fields) OR 'reported'(All Fields) AND (` outcome assessment (health care)'(MeSH Terms) OR ('outcome'(All Fields) AND 'assessment'(All Fields) AND '(health'(All Fields) AND ` care)'(All Fields)) OR ` outcome assessment (health care)'(All Fields) OR ('outcome'(All Fields) AND 'measures'(All Fields)) OR 'outcome measures'(All Fields)))) AND ('randomized controlled trial'(Publication Type) OR 'randomized controlled trials as topic'(MeSH Terms) OR 'randomised controlled trials'(All Fields) OR 'randomized controlled trials'(All Fields)) AND (ophth*(All Fields)). The authors also utilised the extensive non-ophthalmic literature and online resources relating to PROs and PROMs to inform this review.
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