PHO announces new journal!
The PROMIS® Health Organization and Elsevier are pleased to announce a partnership for a new open access, peer-reviewed journal -- Advances in Patient-Reported Outcomes (APRO) -- the official journal of the PROMIS Health Organization.
Click to learn more. Manuscript portal opening soon. Author fees waived through 2026.
Interested in being a reviewer? Please email journal@promishealth.org.
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PROMIS in China
The PROMIS National Center (PNC) - China Network Symposium, held Sept. 4 in Shanghai, brought together healthcare professionals who are bringing the patient's voice into clinical care and research. Honored guest speakers were Drs. Susan Bartlett, Dave Cella, John Chaplin and Caroline Terwee. Thanks to Dr. Changrong Yuan for organizing a great program.
Congratulations to the 2024 Scholarship Recipients
The PHO Board of Directors is pleased to introduce the recipients of the 2024 PHO Scholarship Awards Program. Now in its sixth year, this competitive program drew applications from around the world. The scholarships provide support for students and early-career clinicians and researchers to attend the PHO's annual conference. Each scholarship recipient was also selected to share their research as an oral paper or a poster at this year's conference.
Scholarships are funded by generous donations from members and others to the PHO Scholarship Fund and the PHO Mission Fund.
Learn about the 2024 Scholarship Recipients Learn about the 2019-2023 Scholarship Recipients.
New Publications
Klapproth CP, Fischer F, Doehmen A, Kock M, Rohde J, Rieger K, Keilholz U, Rose M, Obbarius A. The PROPr can be measured using different PROMIS domain item sets. Cancer Epidemiol. 2024 Sep 10;93:102658. doi: 10.1016/j.canep.2024.102658. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 39260316.
The authors examined whether using different item sets to estimate PROPr yielded systematic differences in scores using cross-sectional data from a sample of 199 cancer patients. They varied the PROMIS Pain Interference item set, including 4 items from the PROMIS-29, 2 items from the PROPr technical report, and 10 items from a custom short form. While PROMIS Pain Interference and PROPr scores did differ at the individual level, they did not differ meaningfully on average.
Becker SP, Burns GL, Montaño JJ, Servera M. Psychometric Examination of the PROMIS Parent Proxy Pediatric Sleep Measures from Early Childhood to Adolescence in a Nationally Representative Spanish Sample. Sleep. 2024 Sep 14:zsae215. doi: 10.1093/sleep/zsae215. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 39276369.
The authors examined the psychometric properties of the PROMIS parent proxy pediatric sleep measures (sleep disturbance, sleep-related impairment) in a nationally representative sample of children and adolescents aged 5-16 in Spain. Overall, the authors identified strong psychometric properties, including sex- and age-related invariance, and provided age-based norms.
Catley CD, Romans SC, Cheng AL, Calfee RP. Delivery of Hand Care to Patients With High Anxiety Burden. J Hand Surg Am. 2024 Sep 21:S0363-5023(24)00393-9. doi: 10.1016/j.jhsa.2024.08.005. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 39306772.
This single-center retrospective study matched three cohorts of patients seen by a hand surgeon (carpal tunnel syndrome, trigger finger, and distal radius fracture) with/without high anxiety (PROMIS Anxiety T-score ≥70) based on primary diagnosis, sex, race, age, and surgeon. Matched patients with and without high anxiety were offered surgery at a similar rate, but those with high anxiety were less likely to undergo surgery and were more likely to have postoperative complications. Sentiment analysis of surgeon office notes identified more frequent (but still limited) acknowledgment of the patient’s emotional state in those with high anxiety.
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