New IJQHC Supplement: PROMs in Mental Health

ISQua's latest IJQHC Supplement has just been published. This supplement focuses on how to include the patient voice in mental health, in terms of PREMs (patient-reported experience measures) and PROMs (patient-reported outcomes measures). 

PREMs and PROMs are means to assure that the patient voice in health care will be heard and institutionalized. PREMs capture patients’ experience of health service delivery. 

PROMs provide patients’ perspective on their own health status and how it may have changed over the course of treatment.

PREMs and PROMs are complementary and are meant to be used together to capture a more complete and person-centred picture of the patients’s journey and the impact as well as experience of health care they are receiving.

This supplement describes the value in using PROMs and PREMs to assess the quality and outcomes of mental health care. The different international initiatives and the results presented are promising. 

There is a need for continued international harmonisation of PROMs and PREMs for mental health as a key way to facilitate the sharing of national experiences, promote the use of PROMs and PREMs and create meaningful indicators for national and international benchmarking.

The Guest Editors for this supplement were David Roe, Solvejg Kristensen and Jan Mainz; and the supplement was supported by the Obel Family Foundation, Aalborg, Denmark grant no 28020, and The Center for Mental Health Research, Practice and Policy, University of Haifa.