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      An emerging framework for fully incorporating public involvement (PI) into patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs)

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          Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) are widely used in the United Kingdom (UK) and internationally to report and monitor patients’ subjective assessments of their symptoms and functional status and also their quality of life. Whilst the importance of involving the public in PROM development to increase the quality of the developed PROM has been highlighted this practice is not widespread. There is a lack of guidance on how public involvement (PI) could be embedded in the development of PROMs, where the roles can be more complex than in other types of research. This paper provides a timely review and sets out an emerging framework for fully incorporating PI into PROM development.

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          Patient involvement in clinical research: why, when, and how

          The development of a patient-centered approach to medicine is gradually allowing more patients to be involved in their own medical decisions. However, this change is not happening at the same rate in clinical research, where research generally continues to be carried out on patients, but not with patients. This work describes the why, when, and how of more active patient participation in the research process. Specific measures are proposed to improve patient involvement in 1) setting priorities, 2) study leadership and design, 3) improved access to clinical trials, 4) preparation and oversight of the information provided to participants, 5) post-study evaluation of the patient experience, and 6) the dissemination and application of results. In order to achieve these aims, the relative emphases on the ethical principles underlying research need to be changed. The current model based on the principle of beneficence must be left behind, and one that upholds the ethical principles of autonomy and non maleficence should be embraced. There is a need to improve the level of information that patients and society as a whole have on research objectives and processes; the goal is to promote the gradual emergence of the expert patient.
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            Patient involvement in the development of patient‐reported outcome measures: a scoping review

            Abstract Background Patient‐reported outcome measures (PROMs) measure patients’ perspectives on health outcomes and are increasingly used in health care. To capture the patient's perspective, it is essential that patients are involved in PROM development Objective This article reviews in what ways and to what extent patients are involved in PROM development and whether patient involvement has increased over time. Search strategy Literature was searched in PubMed, EMBASE, MEDLINE and the Cochrane Methodology Register. Inclusion criteria Studies were included if they described a new PROM development. Data extraction Basic information and information regarding patient involvement in development phases was recorded. Main results A total of 189 studies, describing the development of 193 PROMs, were included. Most PROMs were meant for chronic disease patients (n = 59) and measured quality of life (n = 28). In 25.9% of the PROM development studies, no patients were involved. Patients were mostly involved during item development (58.5%), closely followed by testing for comprehensibility (50.8%), while patient involvement in determining which outcome to measure was minimal (10.9%). Some patient involvement took place in the development of most PROMs, but in only 6.7% patients were involved in all aspects of the development. Patient involvement did not increase with time. Conclusions Although patient involvement in PROM development is essential to develop valid patient‐centred PROMs, patients are not always involved. When patients are involved, their level of involvement varies considerably. These variations suggest that further attention to building and/or disseminating consensus on requirements for patient involvement in PROM development is necessary.
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              Patient and public involvement in patient-reported outcome measures: evolution not revolution.

              This paper considers the potential for collaborative patient and public involvement in the development, application, evaluation, and interpretation of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs). The development of PROMs has followed a well trodden methodological path, with patients contributing as research subjects to the content of many PROMs. This paper argues that the development of PROMs should embrace more collaborative forms of patient and public involvement with patients as research partners in the research process, not just as those individuals who are consulted or as subjects, from whom data are sourced, to ensure the acceptability, relevance, and quality of research. We consider the potential for patients to be involved in a much wider range of methodological activities in PROM development working in partnership with researchers, which we hope will promote paradigmal evolution rather than revolution.
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                Contributors
                j.carlton@sheffield.ac.uk
                Journal
                J Patient Rep Outcomes
                J Patient Rep Outcomes
                Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes
                Springer International Publishing (Cham )
                2509-8020
                13 January 2020
                13 January 2020
                December 2020
                : 4
                : 4
                Affiliations
                [1 ]ISNI 0000 0004 1936 9262, GRID grid.11835.3e, University of Sheffield, ; Regent Court, 30 Regent Street, Sheffield, S1 4DA UK
                [2 ]ISNI 0000000121885934, GRID grid.5335.0, University of Cambridge, ; Cambridge, UK
                [3 ]ISNI 0000 0004 1936 8948, GRID grid.4991.5, University of Oxford, ; Oxford, UK
                [4 ]ISNI 0000 0001 2322 6764, GRID grid.13097.3c, Kings College London, ; London, UK
                Author information
                http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9373-7663
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                10.1186/s41687-019-0172-8
                6957651
                31933005
                a8cd6b1a-f931-41de-b48e-5bba87356eb8
                © The Author(s) 2020

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