#30: Sparking Patient Activation with Patient Reported Outcomes (with Adeline Dorough, Clinical Content Manager at Phreesia)
Slice of Healthcare Team
Mar 15, 2023
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What you’ll get out of this episode
Listen in as host Tim Fitzpatrick chats with Adeline Dorough about the importance of patient reported outcomes (PROs) including the Patient Activation Measure (PAM). The “PAM” has been highlighted as a key variable in more than 750 peer-reviewed studies to date. Adeline teaches us that while high-quality medical care is an important determinant of health outcomes, patients’ health behaviors play a large role, too. By leveraging patient activation to gauge an individual’s ability to manage their own health and take an active role in their care, care teams can be better equipped to provide high-quality care that meets a patient’s individual needs.
In this episode you’ll discover:
- Patient activation refers to an individual’s ability to manage their own health and take an active role in their care. At its core, the concept of patient activation stems from one underlying question: Does this patient possess the knowledge, skills and confidence to manage their own health and healthcare?
- A patient-reported outcome (PRO) is a report of a person's health status that comes directly from the patient. Patient-reported outcomes are important because so many diagnoses cannot be made by a lab test or imaging. In many ways, PROs capture health data that are invisible in the standard of care, but essential to how we deliver high quality-care.
- Why the PAM is the gold standard tool for assessing patient activation, and is endorsed by the National Quality Forum (NQF).
- How Phreesia partners with companies to give patients the tools they need to take an active role in their care.
- How patients move between PAM levels during their care journeys, and why that matters. Clinicians can use the PAM levels to understand where each person may need a little more support and modify their approach to care delivery.
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