AAOS launches initiative with updated patient-reported outcome tools, guidance
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Key takeaways:
- The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons announced the launch of the PROMs in Practice initiative.
- The initiative seeks to address barriers to implementing patient-reported outcome measures in practice.
The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons launched the patient-reported outcome measures initiative PROMs in Practice that includes resources to facilitate widespread use of such measures in orthopedic care, according to a press release.
“Patient-reported outcome measurements about health status — such as pain, physical mobility, emotional well-being and experience of care — have been routinely used in clinical trials to test the impact of medication and other treatments on improving patient care. These types of measures will soon be required for use in orthopedic performance measurement,” Kurt P. Spindler, MD, FAAOS, chair of the AAOS patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) workgroup, said in the release. “The new AAOS PROMs user guide, scoring tool and other high-quality resources distill knowledge and expertise from a broad range of stakeholders and orthopedic experts to provide a set of best practices to facilitate an organizations’ ability to implement and utilize PROMs.”
In a recent survey of AAOS members, 72% of members had PROMs concerns related to staff burden and 69% reported challenges with patients completing PROMs. The release noted the PROMs in Practice initiative aims to raise awareness and understanding of PROMs usage at the point of care, offer solutions to enhance access to technological solutions, and advocate for improved legislative and payer support on behalf of members of the AAOS and their patients. The initiative will also support orthopedic surgeons in enhancing communication between patients and care teams, and improve patient involvement in care planning and decision-making, as well as foster key communication in mandatory changes by the CMS and commercial insurers.
“Despite great advances in patient-reported outcome measurement, there is still much ground to be covered as far as making it simple for orthopedic surgeons to incorporate PROMs measurement into routine clinical care, including standardization of tool selection, validation of tools, efficient measurement of PROMs, integration with the electronic health record and identifying and understanding clinical use cases across all orthopedic subspecialties,” Kevin J. Bozic, MD, MBA, FAAOS, president of AAOS, said in the release.
Activities and solutions aimed at increasing the utilization of PROMs at the point of care include a PROMs user guide and other educational materials, webinars and publications, AAOS-endorsed technology solutions, a list of PROMs recommended by the AAOS for each specialty area, and coding and reimbursement resources, according to the release.
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