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 6: The Role of HCPs in Advancing Equitable PROM Use

PROMs have the potential to add great value to patient care, yet they also can perpetuate health disparities if not implemented equitably. Current approaches to evaluating PROM implementation often fail to consider the social and structural determinants of health that may influence PROM use across patient populations and the specific role HCPs play in worsening or lessening those disparities. This session explores how measuring and collecting patient-reported outcomes may reinforce inequities and increase health disparities by hiding or misrepresenting health outcomes of diverse people. By accounting for these individual differences, HCPs can better understand and address health inequities, ensuring more equitable care for all patients.

This fully live session will not be recorded to encourage free discussion amongst speakers and attendees. While a pre-recorded version will be available on-demand, make sure to join us live for the full presentations and to watch and participate in the Q&A!

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).

Richard Sawatzky, PhD RN

Trinity Western University & Centre for Advancing Health Outcomes

  
Dr. Sawatzky is professor in nursing at Trinity Western University, lead of the patient-reported outcomes program at the Centre for Advancing Health Outcomes, and internal advisor at the University of Gothenburg Centre for Person-Centred Care. As a Canada Research Chair since 2011, Dr. Sawatzky aims to advance a new paradigm of equitable people-centred health measurement for measuring diverse perspectives of health and healthcare. His team-based program of research includes: 1) methodological research on patient-reported outcomes measurement, 2) mixed-methods research on quality of life assessments in clinical practice, 3) and knowledge translation on equitable people-centred health measurement (www.healthyqol.com).

Angela Stover, PhD

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  
Dr. Angela Stover is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at UNC Chapel Hill in the US. She also co-directs the Implementation Science Methods Unit for UNC’s Clinical and Translational Science Award from NIH. Her research program on patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) and implementation science has spanned 20 years, including developing PROMs and helping clinics implement PROMs. Dr. Stover teaches courses on PROMs and implementation science in the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. Dr. Stover has published more than 60 peer-reviewed articles and her work has been cited more than 7,000 times.