A brief Patient-Reported Outcomes Quality of Life (PROQOL) instrument to improve patient care

Jennifer L Ridgeway; Timothy J Beebe; Christopher G Chute; David T Eton; Lacey A Hart; Marlene H Frost; Daniel Jensen; Victor M Montori; John G Smith; Steven A Smith; Angelina D Tan; Kathleen J Yost; Jeanette Y Ziegenfuss; Jeff A Sloan

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001548

A brief Patient-Reported Outcomes Quality of Life (PROQOL) instrument to improve patient care

PLoS Med. 2013 Nov;10(11):e1001548. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001548. Epub 2013 Nov 12.

Authors

Jennifer L Ridgeway¹, Timothy J Beebe, Christopher G Chute, David T Eton, Lacey A Hart, Marlene H Frost, Daniel Jensen, Victor M Montori, John G Smith, Steven A Smith, Angelina D Tan, Kathleen J Yost, Jeanette Y Ziegenfuss, Jeff A Sloan

Affiliation

¹ Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America.

Abstract

Jeff Sloan and colleagues describe the development of the Patient-Reported Outcomes Quality of Life (PROQOL) instrument, which captures and stores patient-recorded outcomes in the medical record for patients with diabetes. Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

Diabetes Mellitus / therapy*
Humans
Patient Care / standards*
Quality Improvement*
Quality of Life*
Surveys and Questionnaires*

Grants and funding

UL1 TR000001/TR/NCATS NIH HHS/United States