Learn more about PROMs
The VALHUE study team will be showing off our research at the Canadian Association for Health Services and Policy Research‘s (CAHSPR) annual conference in Vancouver on May 28 – 31, 2013. Our poster presentation is about selecting a generic health status instrument for the systematic collection of patient-reported outcomes and our oral presentation will focus on lessons from the collection of patient-reported outcomes and knowledge translation exercises. Read more
Welcome to the PROMs Community
Patient-centred care seems like such a hot topic right now. There is an enormous effort right now to quantify health care from the patient’s point of view. One thing that’s become clear is the growing need for reliable, high quality information. By this I mean information beyond the conceptual, the theoretical, and the buzzwords. The kind of information you can really only get from the firsthand experiences of those that are on the frontline putting this into practice. That’s the kind of experience we hope to deliver with this blog. Welcome to the Patient Reported Outcomes blog. Read more
VALHUE
There is little understanding of whether shorter wait times are associated with better clinical outcomes, and whether policy-linked initiatives to increase access to surgery are associated with consistent changes in health improvement. The literature regarding the effect of wait times on health is significantly under-developed. VALHUE aims to address this gap in the literature.