Reducing the pressures of outpatient care: the potential role of patient-reported outcomes

The global demand for hospital treatment exceeds capacity.The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated this issue, leading to increased backlogs and longer wait times for patients. The amount of outpatient attendances undertaken in many settings is still below pre-pandemic levels and this, combined with de...

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Autores principales: Aiyegbusi, Olalekan Lee, Hughes, Sarah E, Peipert, John Devin, Schougaard, Liv Marit Valen, Wilson, Roger, Calvert, Melanie J
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Publicado: SAGE Publications 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9944235/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36758615
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/01410768231152222
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Hughes, Sarah E
Peipert, John Devin
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Wilson, Roger
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description The global demand for hospital treatment exceeds capacity.The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated this issue, leading to increased backlogs and longer wait times for patients. The amount of outpatient attendances undertaken in many settings is still below pre-pandemic levels and this, combined with delayed referrals, means that patients are facing delays in treatment and poorer health outcomes. Use of digital health technologies, notably the use of remote symptom monitoring systems based on patient-reported outcomes (PROs), may offer a solution to reduce outpatient waiting lists and tailor care to those in greatest need. Drawing on international examples, the authors explore the use of electronic PRO systems to triage clinical care. We summarise the key benefits of the approach and also highlight the challenges for implementation, which need to be addressed to promote equitable healthcare delivery.
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spelling pubmed-99442352023-02-23 Reducing the pressures of outpatient care: the potential role of patient-reported outcomes Aiyegbusi, Olalekan Lee Hughes, Sarah E Peipert, John Devin Schougaard, Liv Marit Valen Wilson, Roger Calvert, Melanie J J R Soc Med Review The global demand for hospital treatment exceeds capacity.The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated this issue, leading to increased backlogs and longer wait times for patients. The amount of outpatient attendances undertaken in many settings is still below pre-pandemic levels and this, combined with delayed referrals, means that patients are facing delays in treatment and poorer health outcomes. Use of digital health technologies, notably the use of remote symptom monitoring systems based on patient-reported outcomes (PROs), may offer a solution to reduce outpatient waiting lists and tailor care to those in greatest need. Drawing on international examples, the authors explore the use of electronic PRO systems to triage clinical care. We summarise the key benefits of the approach and also highlight the challenges for implementation, which need to be addressed to promote equitable healthcare delivery. SAGE Publications 2023-02-09 2023-02 /pmc/articles/PMC9944235/ /pubmed/36758615 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/01410768231152222 Text en © The Royal Society of Medicine https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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