Patient Reported Outcomes
Quality Measures
Learn about common Patient Reported Outcome (PRO) Scales and Tools used in neurology. Information is provided to assist in your implementation of PRO scales and tools in your practice.
Insight and experiences of people with neurological problems should guide our work. PROMs [Patient Reported Outcome Measures] are the patient's unadulterated voice that helps us provide care more effectively and safely.
Lidia V. Moura, MD - AAN Member
Multiple Cross-Cutting Population Scales and Tools
Generalised Anxiety Disorder Assessment (GAD-7)
“Patients and/or caregivers may have different goals or risk tolerances than the provider is aware of. For example, a patient and provider may agree that reducing the number of medications is a good direction to take, yet there may be several paths to choose from. Asking the patient what their desired outcome is may lead to a completely different medication reduction than the provider had in mind. The patient is more invested in succeeding with the treatment because he/she had input into the decision-making, which hopefully leads to better patient reported outcomes.”
Lisa Meunier, Epilepsy Advocate
Condition-specific Scales and Tools
DEMENTIA SCALES AND TOOLS
HEADACHE SCALES AND TOOLS
EPILEPSY SCALES AND TOOLS
MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SCALES AND TOOLS
Review Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) funded research on how to advance the collection of patient-reported outcomes through health information technology such as mobile applications and standardized data elements.
Planned Visits
Collection of PROM data can be easier when a practice utilizes a planned visit model. Use of a planned visit model may also result in improved patient satisfaction, improved self-management, as well as improved clinic productivity and reduced costs.
- AMA Pre-Visit Planning is an education module that walks through the steps to executing a planned visit and includes interactive calculators to identify potential benefits of implementation.
- Institute for Healthcare Improvement Partnering in Self-Management Support: A Toolkit for Clinicians provides multiple resources to help support patients with their day-to-day management of chronic conditions and includes an example of a Planned Care Visit Workflow.
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Strategy 6L: Planned Visits is an implementation guide for how to collect CAHPS data using a planned visit.