Register today to attend the ISOQOL 1st Virtual Symposium, an event focused on challenges that healthcare providers (HCPs) encounter in the integration of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) into routine practice.

Scheduled for three half-days from 6-8 May 2025, this virtual event will consist of panel discussions, presentations, an interactive online activity, real world case studies, and live attendee engagement and interaction with the speakers.

Session Highlight

Session 5: Engaging and Motivating HCPs to Adopt PROMs in Clinical Practice

Adoption of PROMs in clinical practice is influenced by providers’ motivation for the change. Motivation, the third component of the COM-B model, is essential an essential ingredient. This session will address the part attitudes and beliefs play in facilitating HCP adoption of PROMs in general and for the specific activities of PROM score interpretation and clinical decision-making. Through practice examples offered by a panel of clinical experts, this session will show the importance of assessing HCP attitudes and beliefs before implementation. Furthermore, we will focus on specific approaches to address motivational barriers for clinical audiences to ensure that the benefits of PROMs outweigh the burdens to both providers and patients. Lastly, this session will explore how perspectives might vary for HCPs of different professional backgrounds and/or in different clinical practice settings.

Session Speakers:

Elizabeth J. Austin, PhD MPH

Department of Health Systems and Population Health, University of Washington

  
Elizabeth J. Austin, PhD MPH, is a Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Health Systems and Population Health at the University of Washington. She conducts a variety of evaluative and implementation-focused research that targets patient-provider interactions, addressing the informatics, workflow, organizational elements that can lead to more patient-centered clinical decision-making. She previously served as Co-Chair of the ISOQOL Clinical Practice Special Interest Group and has co-led four national/international workshops on PRO implementation in clinical practice. She has implemented patient-reported outcome measures in surgical, primary care, pediatric, and behavioral health care settings across the U.S and led the development of a toolkit to guide health systems in electronic PRO implementation (epros.becertain.org).

Natasha Roberts, PhD BN(hons)

Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital

  
Natasha Roberts is an early career clinician researcher, she is a senior research fellow in UQCCR, holds a Metro North Clinical Research Fellowship in partnership with UQCCR and is a Conjoint Clinical Research Fellow with the Surgical Treatment and Rehabilitation Service (STARS) in Metro North Health, Australia Natasha has 30 years nursing experience, including training in intensive care, later moving into a role as a specialist cancer nurse. Natasha’s research areas include health services research, health equity, implementation science and quality of life. Natasha attained her Bachelor of Nursing degree in 1994, her Honours degree in 2001 and her PhD in 2021, where she investigated implementation of patient reported outcomes into oncology care.

Lisa Edwards, PhD

University of Bradford

  
Lisa Edwards, PhD, PT, is an experienced physiotherapist, academic, and researcher specialising in both physical and mental health, with a primary focus on suicide prevention. She teaches undergraduate and postgraduate physiotherapy students and is committed to advancing holistic, patient-centered care. Lisa’s research explores the integration of physical and psychological approaches to rehabilitation to improve mental health outcomes. She has contributed to securing several research grants and actively collaborates with interdisciplinary teams. Passionate about physiotherapy education, Lisa equips future practitioners to provide comprehensive care that addresses both physical and mental health needs.

Patricia Franklin, MD MBA MPH

Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University

  
Patricia Franklin, MD MBA MPH is Professor of Medical Social Sciences, Medicine, and Orthopedics at the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University. For almost three decades, she has designed and implemented novel methods to translate real world healthcare data to patient-centered care to improve health outcomes. In particular, she designed effective methods to collect patient-reported outcomes (PROs) and social risk data from tens of thousands of patients and integrated these data with clinical data to guide personalized treatment decision tools. A 2018 National Academy of Medicine publication recognized her leadership in the FORCE-TJR national research program (AHRQ P50) as a model learning health system where patient-centered research data informed both new best practices and quality improvement efforts. Much of her research has been with aging adults, including people with knee and hip osteoarthritis and total joint arthroplasty. Dr. Franklin has held diverse leadership roles including medical director of health system quality, director of learning health systems training programs for junior faculty (K12) and trainees (PhD, MD), and principal investigator of multi-site federally funded research studies.