Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) can demonstrate the effects of a disease or treatment. By using patient questionnaires, the results can be analyzed to predict clinical outcomes in medical research ...

In eye clinics and clinical trials, doctors increasingly rely on patients' own reports of how eye disease and treatment ...

Patients often withhold key health information during consultations, which may contribute to delayed diagnosis, unnecessary testing, and suboptimal clinical decisions.

Objectives To determine the prevalence of depressive and anxiety symptoms among young people 7 years and 9 years after ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . At the recent ASCRS meeting in Washington, my fellow Abhi Guduru, MD, and I presented on “Quantifying ...

Physician underestimation of the symptom burden in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) is common and is associated with less frequent treatment escalation and smaller improvements in health status ...

Though patients have expressed their dissatisfaction with communication in the cancer care system, 8, 13 the quality of patient-provider communication is an area seldom measured systematically as part ...

OAK BROOK, Ill. – Knowing a patient’s symptoms helps radiologists in lumbar spine MRI interpretation and diagnosis, according to a study published today in Radiology, a journal of the Radiological ...

Insufficient Effectiveness of 5-Hydroxytryptamine-3 Receptor Antagonists Due to Oral Morphine Administration in Patients With Cisplatin-Induced Emesis PURPOSE: To develop a psychometrically sound ...

The University of Texas-Memorial Hermann Center for Healthcare Quality and Safety offers a series of free, downloadable safety attitudes questionnaires. The Safety Attitudes Questionnaire has been ...

Ever felt your eyes glazing over as you fill out the questionnaire you've been given by a doctor's receptionist, trying to make heads or tails of it before your appointment? You're not alone, a new ...