On 1 October 2021, A. Oemrawsingh will defend his PhD dissertation, entitled: ‘Patient-Reported Outcome Measures in Clinical Care: methodological aspects and practical applications’.
- Promotor
- Promotor
- Co-promotor
- Co-promotor
- Date
- Friday 1 Oct 2021, 13:00 - 14:30
- Type
- PhD defence
- Space
- Senate Hall
- Building
- Erasmus Building
- Location
- Campus Woudestein
One of the components of Value-based Healthcare (VBHC) is the measurement of outcomes that matter to patients. Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) are the instruments to capture outcomes directly reported by patients on his or her own health status (including quality of life) and/ or treatment, thus without external interpretation of patients’ responses by healthcare professionals. These measures express the combined influence of diseases or health conditions and their treatments. PROMs have been implemented in clinical care with wide-ranging intentions: from screening of health problems or psychosocial issues within primary care, monitoring patients’ response to treatment, facilitating patientprovider communication, enhancing shared decision-making, to benchmarking healthcare institutions for quality of care improvement and transparency. The aim of this dissertation was two-fold: to study certain methodological aspects of the analysis (e.g. important case-mix factors to consider and how to adjust for them) of PROMs (Part I; Chapters 2–4), and to explore the implementation and practical application of PROMs in clinical care (Part II; Chapters 5–8).
The public defence will take place at the Senate Hall, 1st floor Erasmus Building, location campus Woudestein. The ceremony will begin exactly at 13.00 PM. In light of the solemn nature of the ceremony, we recommend that you do not take children under the age of 6 to the first part of the ceremony.
