Researchers from the Bridgepoint Collaboratory for Research and Innovation presented a webinar to introduce the Electronic Patient Reported Outcomes (ePRO) Tool to AFHTO members. This tool allows patients and providers to set outcome goals together, after which patients are able to track and report on their progress towards these goals using an app on their mobile device (tablet or phone). The researchers are hoping to recruit 22 sites for a clinical trial scheduled to begin in January 2017. Drs. Carolyn Steele-Gray, Walter Wodchis, and Pauline Boeckxstaens presented the tool and some information about the planned clinical trial. Slides from the webinar and a video recording of the webinar (see below – length 1:03:53) can help you determine whether your team might be suited to participate in the trial. More information about the tool, including some short videos, can be found here. If you have any questions, please contact catherine.macdonald@afhto.ca.
About the project:
Patient reported outcomes (PRO) are increasingly recognized as a major indicator of quality in health care. PROs can provide insight into the impact of treatments and interventions on a person’s health that go beyond traditional provider chosen outcomes. They may include vital signs, disease specific symptoms, functionality, pain, general well-being, among other measures in high risk patients. Patients themselves have identified the health of their informal caregiver (often the spouse of a senior patient) to be a significant metric in terms of assessing whether their own current treatment/management strategy was effective.
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