Resources for clinicians and patients

The PRMs program has developed a series of resources for health professionals and consumers.

For consumers

Fact sheet: Patient-reported experience measures (PREMs)

We aim to deliver the best care possible, and your feedback can help us to improve our service. This information is for people who have been invited to participate in the Patient Reported Measures Program.

Fact sheet: Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs)

This information is for people who have been invited to complete a brief survey about their health condition and overall wellbeing. This is known as a patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) survey.

Fact sheet: Is your wound bothering you? WOUND-Q© survey

A visual guide for people who are asked to complete a survey about their wound. The survey is called WOUND-Q©.

Fact sheet: Providing feedback on your care - Patient-reported measures

This information is for people who have been invited to participate in the patient-reported measures (PRMs) program. They may be asked to complete one or more surveys about their health and experience of receiving care.

Patient Reported Measures

This video is produced by St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney and Healthily to explain patient-reported measures to consumers.

For clinicians

Health Outcomes and Patient Experience (HOPE)

Using patient feedback to improve care

HOPE demonstration for primary care clinicians
Demonstration for practice managers and administrators implementing HOPE

Patient-reported outcome measures: Methods for analysis and reporting

Methods for analysis and reporting on patient-reported outcome measures to be used by data analysts, statisticians and researchers working with PROMs data.

Patient-reported measures capability development framework

Develop the capabilities required of a workforce that delivers outcomes that matter to patients and carers.

Patient-reported measures change and adoption strategy

Discover the implementation planning and support needed to collect and use PRMs in clinical care.

Patient-reported measures stakeholder engagement and communications framework

Use these stakeholder engagement and communication channels to implement the NSW Patient Reported Measures program.

Analytic Principles for Patient Reported Outcome Measures

Patient-reported measures assess health-related quality of life, functional status, symptoms and symptom burden, treatment burden, health behaviours and health status. For robust assessments and conclusions, analyses take account of patient characteristics, time, data quality and fair comparisons.

Patient Reported Measures Program Formative Evaluation Report 2017

This document presents the results of the formative evaluation of the Patient Reported Measures (PRMs) Program, which is a component of the NSW Integrated Care Strategy (Strategy).

Patient Reported Measures Data Governance and Management Framework

The Framework provides the stakeholders of PRM data with an instrument to govern PRM data assets effectively through the exercise of authority and control (planning, guiding and monitoring) over the management of these assets.

Emergency department PREM survey

Survey to measure the patient view of their experience in the emergency department.

Inpatient PREM question set

Survey to capture patients' experience of their hospital stay.

Longitudinal PREM - Questions

Adults receiving care that extends over a long period of time and is seen as a longitudinal capture of a persons experience.

Paediatric Integrated Care Survey (PICS) - PREM

PICS is an instrument that measures the outcome of family-reported experience of integrated care for child health.

Outpatient PREM question set

Survey to capture patients' experiences of outpatient clinics and services.

Paediatric PREM questions

A survey for parents to capture the health experience of their children.

Virtual care PREM question set

Virtual care patient experience real-time question set.

The Patient Reported Measures surveys listed here are available for users within the HOPE platform.

Assessment of Quality of Life – 6 Dimensions (AQoL-6D)

(The AQoL-6D questionnaire is designed to measure a person’s self-reported health and wellbeing across 6 areas: Independent Living, Mental Health, Coping, Relationships, Pain, Senses.

Cardiff Wound Impact Schedule

This questionnaire is concerned with the effects that your wound has on your daily life.

Catquest- Short Form 9

Catquest-9SF is a Rasch scaled 9-item questionnaire used to measure activity limitations in daily life due to poor vision because of cataracts. The questionnaire is used to measure patients’ self-assessed visual function before and six months after a cataract extraction to evaluate the benefit of the surgery.

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (CAT)

This questionnaire will help you and your healthcare professional measure the impact COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) is having on your wellbeing and daily life.

COVID-19 Yorkshire Rehabilitation Scale (C19-YRS)

A survey to capture persistent symptoms of post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (long COVID).

COVID-19 Yorkshire Rehabilitation Screening Tool

A survey to capture persistent symptoms of post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (long COVID).

Depression Anxiety Stress Scale-21

The Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale - 21 Items (DASS-21) is a set of three self-report scales designed to measure the emotional states of depression, anxiety and stress.

Diabetes Distress scale

Diabetes Distress Scale (DDS) questionnaire and scoring sheet.

Health Questionnaire (EQ-5D-5L)

Health Questionnaire EQ-5D-5L for mobility, self-care, usual activities, pain/discomfort and anxiety depression.

Falls Efficacy Scale (FES-I)

The questionnaire is intended to be used in adult population to measure the level of concern about falling during social and physical activities inside and outside the home.

Hip Dysfunction and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score (HOOS)

The hip disability and osteoarthritis outcome score (HOOS) is a questionnaire intended to be used to assess the patient’s opinion about their hip and associated problems.

Integrated Palliative Outcome Scale (IPOS) Renal

The questionnaire is intended for use among people severely affected by diseases such as cancer, respiratory, heart, renal or liver failure, and neurological diseases.

Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire (KCCQ)

The Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire (KCCQ), is a patient-reported outcome instrument, provides a measure of symptoms and physical limitations associated with heart failure

Knee injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome (KOOS)

The Knee Injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score (KOOS) is a knee-specific instrument, developed to assess the patients' opinion about their knee and associated problems.

Oxford Hip Score

Oxford hip score mobility and pain questionnaire.

Oxford Knee Score

Oxford knee score mobility and pain questionnaire.

Partners in Health (PIH) Scale

Partners in Health (PIH) survey, available for ad-hoc use in clinical programs where chronic disease management and self-management information forms part of shared decision making.

This survey is used broadly across NSW in integrated models of care.

Patient Reported Outcome Measures Information System (PROMIS-29)

The questionnaire is intended to be used in adult population to measure the level of concern and their overall wellbeing.

Patient Health Questionnaire-4 (PHQ-4) (PROM)

The Patient Health Questionnaire-4 is a short, four-question tool to assess a patient’s mood – specifically, symptoms of anxiety and depression. Patients in rehabilitation have often experienced life-altering, sometimes traumatic events, hence mood disturbance is common.

Post COVID-19 Functional Status (PCFS) Scale

An ordinal outcome measure that can be used to track functional status over time.

Problem Areas In Diabetes (PAID) Scale

The Problem Areas In Diabetes (PAID) scale is a well-validated, psychometrically robust questionnaire with 20 items.

St George Respiratory (SGR) Questionnaire

This questionnaire is designed to help us learn much more about how your breathing is troubling you and how it affects your life. We are using it to find out which aspects of your illness cause you most problems, rather than what the doctors and nurses think your problems are.

WOUND-Q©

Three scales; Assessment, Drainage and Smell. WOUND-Q© is validated for patients with all types of chronic wounds in any anatomic location.

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