Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) can demonstrate the effects of a disease or treatment. By using patient questionnaires, the results can be analyzed to predict clinical outcomes in medical research ...

Increasing emphasis is being placed on the development of authentic instruments for assessing the competence of health professionals. Patients offer a unique perspective for assessing aspects of ...

Can the patient's perception of the disease become part of the treatment? In Denmark this approach is a reality. Euronews explored how this became possible. Hanne Dalgaard Christensen is a 57-year-old ...

Physician underestimation of the symptom burden in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) is common and is associated with less frequent treatment escalation and smaller improvements in health status ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . At the recent ASCRS meeting in Washington, my fellow Abhi Guduru, MD, and I presented on “Quantifying ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Confusion over symptom questionnaires is common, and likely hampers efforts to diagnose and treat physical and mental illnesses, ...

Though patients have expressed their dissatisfaction with communication in the cancer care system, 8, 13 the quality of patient-provider communication is an area seldom measured systematically as part ...

Healthcare organizations are using digital patient questionnaires to gather real-time data from patients, allowing clinicians to adjust care management when and where needed. Healthcare organizations ...

There is no specific quality of life (QoL) measurement tool to quantify QoL in patients with biliary tract cancer. Quality of life measurement is an increasingly crucial trial end point and is now ...

Fractal Dimension Analysis of Pixel Dynamic Contrast Enhanced-Magnetic Resonance Imaging Pharmacokinetic Parameters for Discrimination of Benign and Malignant Breast Lesions Questionnaires relating to ...

Female doctor or nurse explaining patient how to fill medical form at hospital reception Doctors’ questionnaires can be confusing to patients An experiment showed that vague phrasing in the ...