Learn about
the PHO's journal
The PROMIS® Health Organization and Elsevier are partnering on a new open access, peer-reviewed journal -- Advances in Patient-Reported Outcomes (APRO) -- the official journal of the PROMIS Health Organization.
The journal offers rapid publication of scientifically accurate, timely, and relevant clinical and methodological content that advances the science and application of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs).
APRO is
- International
- Interdisciplinary
- Scientifically Advanced
- Clinically Relevant
Author fees waived 100% through 2026
Abstracts Published
The 11th Annual PROMIS International Conference
October 26-28, 2025, Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA
David Cella, PhD
Professor Emeritus and Founding Chair, Dept. of Medical Social Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL USA
Caroline Terwee, PhD
Professor of Outcome Measurement in Healthcare, Dept. of Epidemiology and Data Science
Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- To promote value in health care through assessment of outcomes that matter to patients.
- To support the voice of the patient in clinical decision-making, quality improvement, and research.
- To publish papers on development, validation and implementation of high-quality PROMs with a strong, but not exclusive, emphasis on PROMIS.
- To publish methodological and educational papers on IRT and CAT that advance the science of PROMs.
The journal considers original educational papers, current concepts, study protocols, research manuscripts, (systematic) reviews, commentaries on articles, and letters to the editor. The journal also publishes editorials, special issues, and conference abstracts. Learn more about the types of content the journal will consider for publication.
Associate Editors
David Bernstein, MD, PhD, MBA, MEI
Mass General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts USA
Adam Carle, PhD
Cincinnati Children's Hospital
Cincinnati, Ohio USA
Maria Orlando Edelen, MA, PhD
RAND Corporation
Boston, Massachusetts USA
Questions? Interested in being a reviewer?
Please email journal@promishealth.org
Patricia Franklin, MD, MBA, MPH
Northwestern University
Chicago, Illinois USA
Martijn Oude Voshaar, MSc, PhD
Erasmus University Medical Center
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Liv Marit Valen Schougaard, RN, MS, PhD
Aarhus University
Aarhus, Denmark
APRO Managing Editor
Kerry O'Rourke, MPH
journal@promishealth.org
International Advisory Board
Sara Ahmed, PhD
McGill University
Montreal, Quebec Canada
Jacob Bjorner, MD, PhD
University of Copenhagen
Copenhagen, Denmark
Man Hung, PhD, MED, MSTAT, MsIS, MBA
Roseman University of Health Sciences
Nevada, USA
Jin-Shei Lai, PhD, OTR/L
Northwestern Univeristy
Chicago, Illinois USA
Istvan Mucsi, MD, PhD
University of Toronto
toronto, Ontario
Canada
J. Devin Peipert, PhD
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston, Birmingham uK
Stephanie Pugh, PhD
NRG Oncology Statistic and Data Management Center
Pennsylvania, USA
Matthias Rose, MD, PhD
Charité University Hospital Berlin, Germany
Carole Tucker, PT, PhD
University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Galveston, Texas