Associate Professor, Health Policy and Management, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
How do the goals of the PROTEUS Consortium align with your professional interests?
The PROTEUS Consortium fills two needs in the field, namely, to create a dissemination website that compiles multiple resources for PROM implementation into one place; and to create a Learning Health Network where healthcare systems work together to solve barriers to PROM implementation.
PROTEUS-Practice aligns well with my research program that identifies important gaps in implementing PRO measures (PROMs) in clinics and determines how those gaps are related to poor patient and clinic outcomes.
How has being a part of the PROTEUS Consortium benefited your work or research?
When I work with clinics to implement PROMs for standard of care, I typically need to share multiple resource documents. Not surprisingly, clinics find it overwhelming to look over multiple resources.
My experience so far is that clinics appreciate the PROTEUS Practice Guide. They like the concrete recommendations that still allow flexibility for developing strategies to overcome barriers they are experiencing.
Can you share any specific examples of how you have utilized the resources provided by the PROTEUS Consortium?
In one project, I am working with the pharmacy service line at UNC Health to develop and evaluate a PROM system. We are using PROTEUS’ visualization standards for showing clinicians a patient’s PROM responses over time. We also joined PROTEUS’ Learning Health Network to exchange ideas on overcoming barriers and harmonizing evaluation of the PROM initiative.
I also use the PROTEUS-Practice Guide in the graduate courses I teach in public health on PROMs and implementation science so the next research generation can benefit from PROTEUS too.
