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Chapter 2
Practice implications
Patients have more difficulty than we may realize with understanding and completing questionnaires. When using questionnaires, patients should be explained what the purpose of the questionnaire is and the results should be discussed with the patient by clearly relating them to the diagnosis, prognosis, proposed treatment goals and/or evaluation of treatment effects. In addition, we need to think about ways that make questionnaires more accessible to patients in clinical practice, such as easier wording, speech and touchscreen technology and/or more visual presentation of questions. Patients are a long way off from becoming advocates for PROMs use in clinical practice.
Acknowledgements and Disclosures
All procedures performed in this study were in accordance with the ethical standards of the Medical Ethics Committee of the Academic Medical Centre of Amsterdam and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
The authors do not report any conflicts of interest.
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