Straight from the Source: Electronic Patient-Reported Outcomes

Researchers and health care providers are increasingly trying to capture information by patient self-reporting because patient reported outcomes provide a unique perspective on patients’ health status. In attempt to standardize data collection for electronic patient report outcomes, the Society of Behavioral Medicine, in collaboration with NIH, is identifying a core set of brief, practical measures of symptoms and health behaviors to be used in electronic health records. Read the full article about this and other initiatives on the Page 5 of the NCI Cancer Bulletin.