EQ-5D and PROMs
Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) are used to evaluate health interventions, providing a measure of an individual’s health status. The EQ-5D is a PROM recommended by NICE for measuring health benefits. It considers 5 dimensions of health and can be used across various diseases.
Publication
Getting the Most out of PROMs: Putting Health Outcomes at the Heart of NHS Decision-Making
1 March 2010
In 2009, the English NHS began collecting patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) for four elective procedures. Using a series of structured questions that ask patients about their…