Chronic Pain
Patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) effectively track the multiple facets of chronic pain, including pain intensity, pain consequences and the impact of pain on daily life.
Examples of common Chronic Pain PROMs in WellCourse:
The value of WellCourse to Oncology:
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Improve your patients’ health and enhance the patient experience by engaging them in routine outcome tracking
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Use of patient reported outcome measures (PROs) to identify and treat patients with worsening symptoms led to improved overall survival (mean = 5 months) for individuals with metastatic cancer
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In patients undergoing chemotherapy, the use of PROs increased communication with clinicians, improved satisfaction with emotional support from their clinician, and increased quality of life
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Supplement your understanding of your patients’ health condition based on clinical markers, with real-time outcomes that are meaningful to your patients
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Compared to the self-reported pain, fatigue, nausea, dyspnea, and diarrhea outcomes of patients with advanced cancer, a significantly lower percentage of clinicians rated their patients’ symptoms as moderate or severe, supporting the importance of obtaining the patient perspective