PROMIS for Clinicians

As many clinicians know, there is unique information in patient reports of their own health status and health care decisions should be based on patient needs. PROMIS creates an opportunity for clinicians and patients to develop a common language around self–reported health status and in the process allow better assessment of the unique information from patients thereby enabling improved quality of care and quality of clinical research.

PROMIS provides clinicians access to both adult and child patient–reported measures of symptoms, such as pain and fatigue, and aspects of health–related quality of life. Each domain measure has undergone rigorous qualitative and psychometric evaluation and refinement through studies with patients with the goal to enable clinicians and researchers to have access to efficient, precise, valid, and responsive indicators of a person’s health status. These measures are available for use across a wide variety of chronic diseases and conditions and in the general population.

PROMIS short forms and Computer Adaptive Test (CAT) are particularly convenient for clinical practice and trials with short forms containing 4 – 10 items and CATs contain 3 – 7 items with more precise and individualized content.

The PROMIS Network is also actively collaborating with some of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act Programs who are building the foundation for every American to benefit from an electronic health record.