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Understanding the importance and value of Patient-reported outcomes
Francesco Patalano on why PROs empower patients and improve clinical decision-making, thus driving improved outcomes and better health care.
Here is what Francesco Patalano has to say: I am a physician, a Pharma R&D executive and, from time to time, a patient – we all are.
- However, they are only known to the patients who experience them and cannot be measured by a laboratory test.
- Only a patient can describe an episode of migraine affecting the ability to work or the relationship with other family members.
- More efforts are needed to develop PRO instruments in areas of unmet needs.
- In considering PRO a critical part of the Health Data – free to flow, but ultimately owned by the patients – the IMI H2O Project will improve communication between individual patients and their physicians and will facilitate value-based healthcare decisions.
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