PROTEUS — PRACTICE
The PROTEUS-Practice Guide
The PROTEUS Guide to Implementing Patient-Reported Outcomes in Clinical Practice: A Synthesis of Resources (the PROTEUS-Practice Guide) can help you design, implement, and manage patient-reported outcome (PRO) systems and related data in clinical care settings.
The PROTEUS Workbook for Implementing Patient-Reported Outcomes in Clinical Practice is a practical companion to the PROTEUS-Practice Guide. It is designed to help multidisciplinary teams reflect on the Practice Guide’s key considerations and support decision-making.
The information in the PROTEUS-Practice Guide applies in a broad range of environments, including solo and group practices, small clinics, inpatient and outpatient settings, and large integrated health systems.
For a brief summary of the Guide, check out this Correspondence in Nature Medicine
How to Use the Guide & WORKBOOK
Download a PDF of the entire PROTEUS-Practice Guide and PROTEUS-Practice Workbook for a synthesis of information drawn from a range of foundational PRO practice resources.
The PROTEUS-Practice Guide is organized into 16 chapters which span three key stages for using PROs in clinical practice: Design, Implementation, and System & Data Management.
Each chapter of the Guide is excerpted and featured on its own dedicated webpage, with additional context and suggested resources.
To help you find the PRO tips you need, explore the webpages listed here by chapter title, and move through the Workbook sections alongside the aligned Guide chapter to document decisions, track progress, and create a living record of your PRO integration activities.
While individual-level patient data collected to inform that patient’s own care can be aggregated for use as real-world evidence, in quality assessment efforts, and in other ways, this Guide focuses primarily on the use of PROs in individual patient-clinician interactions (i.e., my clinician using my data to inform my own care).
Implementing PROs in Clinical Practice:
A Resource Chart
Acknowledgements
We are grateful to the many PROTEUS Consortium members who participated in the development of this Guide. We especially thank the members of the Advisory Committee, listed below, who provided critical input regarding the structure and content. (For full bios on the Advisory Committee, please visit Appendix 1 in the PDF version of the Guide.)
Funding
The PROTEUS Consortium is funded through unrestricted support from Pfizer.