Living with Chronic Disease: Measuring Important Patient-Reported Outcomes

This book serves as a road map for the development and application of patient-reported outcome (PRO) measures, supporting beginners through to experts. The examples focus on health-related quality of life and hyperhidrosis, in the context of clinical development of new medicines. Health-related quality of life represents one of the most commonly measured PROs in both routine clinical practice and research. The book demonstrates the importance of such outcomes to patients with chronic disease and how they can assist clinicians in managing patients and monitoring their response to treatment in terms of both impact and symptoms.

 

This book will benefit readers as a single-source practical guide on development of modern PRO measures, as a blueprint to developing evidence generation plans related to PROs, and in offering useful suggestions on how to navigate recent developments shaping the field.