The National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Health Care Systems Research Collaboratory has several resources on the use of patient-reported outcomes in comparative effectiveness research. A “living textbook” chapter provides background information on patient-reported outcome measures.
This paper describes strategies to overcome barriers in using patient-reported outcome measures:
This is a report from a January 2015 workshop on the use of NIH-suppported patient-reported outcome tools in comparative effectiveness research: