Patient-Reported Outcome-based self-management of patients
Self-management support and role of PROMs
Patients might not be aware of what they can do to contribute to their clinical care or may not realise how important their role is in it. As HCP, you can empower patients by providing appropriate self-management support.
Self-management support aims to strengthen patients’ knowledge, skills, and confidence in their active role. It involves a shift in the HCP–patient relationship toward shared responsibility and collaborative partnership, using a range of techniques and tools that enable patients to actively participate in decision making and their care.
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- facilitate identifying problematic symptoms and further issues on a regular basis.
- encourage patients to reflect more on important aspects of their disease and associated problems.
- serve as a medium, which supports patients in expressing and communicating their burden, symptoms and other aspects of their health-related quality of life such as emotional, physical, social or cognitive functioning.
- can support the provision of PRO-based information on self-management.
Example: The integration of electronic PROMs into patient-accessible online portals enables the online delivery of support materials. These materials can also be automatically personalized according to patients’ needs, based on their responses.
De Silva 2011; Bodenheimer, 2005