"The Routine Use of Patient-reported Outcome Measures in Health Service Decision Making: Challenges and Opportunities"

PRO have come of age as sources of information for health care systems policy decisions. In this plenary session, three experts will present insights on programs that have helped shape health care in the US and UK that are based on PRO data. will discuss the routine use of PROMs to compare health service providers in the United States. Richard Lilford PhD, FRCP, FRCOG, FFPHM, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Director of Birmingham Clinical Research Academy will moderate a discussion among health policy researchers in the UK and US on the use of PROM for policy decisions, asking “What have we learned and where should we go now?” Invited speakers include:

• Professor Nick Black, MD, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine who will provide an overview of the UK's National PROMs Programme.
• Professor Nancy Devlin, PhD Director of Research, UK NHS Office for Health Economics who will present "Getting the most out of PROMs: putting health outcomes at the heart of NHS decision-making".
• Professor Lewis E. Kazis, Sc.D, Director, Department of Health Policy and Management, Boston University School of Public Health who will present "The routine use of PROMs to compare health service providers in the United States. What have we learned?"