PRO is an umbrella term that covers a whole range of potential types of measurement but is used specifically to refer to questionnaires completed by the patient. PRO data may be collected via self-administered questionnaires completed by the patient or via interviewer-administered questionnaires. The latter will only qualify as a PRO where the interviewer is gaining the patient’s views, not where the interviewer uses patient responses to make a professional assessment or judgment of the impact of the patient’s condition. Thus, PROs are a means of gathering patient rather than clinical or other views on the content covered by the questionnaire.

The term ePRO is used for electronic Patient Reported Outcomes. ePRO data is collected electronically via a range of devices including handheld PDA, PC or mobile / cell phone. The term mPRO refers specifically to the collection of PRO data on a mobile / cell phone.

The most commonly used PRO questionnaires assess one of the following constructs:

• Symptoms (impairments)
• Functioning (disability)
• Health related quality of life (HRQL)
• Quality of life (QoL).

Questionnaires may be generic

Generic

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 (designed to be used in any disease population and cover a broad aspect of the construct measured) or condition-specific (developed speficially to measure those aspects of outcome that are of importance for a people with a particular medical condition).

mPRO is a product from OBS Medical and is a registered trademark of OBS Medical.

See also

• ePRO
• Patient Diary
  Patient diary
  A Patient Diary is a tool used during a clinical trial or a disease treatment to assess the patient's condition or to measure treatment compliance...
  
  
• Clinical trial
  Clinical trial
  Clinical trials are a set of procedures in medical research and drug development that are conducted to allow safety and efficacy data to be collected for health interventions...
  
  
• Clinical trial protocol
  Clinical trial protocol
  A clinical trial protocol is a document that describes the objective, design, methodology, statistical considerations, and organization of a clinical trial...
  
  
• Clinical data acquisition
  Clinical data acquisition
  Acquisition or collection of clinical trial data can be achieved through various methods that may include, but are not limited to, any of the following: paper or electronic medical records, paper forms completed at a site, interactive voice response systems, local electronic data capture systems,...
  
  
• Electronic Data Capture
  Electronic Data Capture
  An Electronic Data Capture system is a computerized system designedfor the collection of clinical data in electronic format for use mainly in human clinical trials.Typically, EDC systems provide:* a graphical user interface component for data entry...
  
  
• M-PRO

External links

• mPRO from t+ Medical
• mobilePRO from Exco InTouch