Patient-Reported-Outcome Measures in Diseases of the Head and Neck

Dear Colleagues,

Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) are measurement tools that capture a person’s perception of their own health. A patient-reported outcome is any report of the status of a patient’s health condition that comes directly from the patient. PROMs enable patients to provide information on aspects of their health status that are relevant to their quality of life, including symptoms, daily functioning, physical, mental, and social wellbeing. Typically, generic (applied across different populations) and disease-specific (used to assess outcomes that are specific to a particular disease or sector of care) PROMs are administered at the same time as they provide complementary information since generic tools are likely to lack sensitivity to capture outcomes related to diseases of the head and neck. A large number of disease-specific outcome measures have been developed to address diseases of the head and neck, such as head and neck cancer, allergic rhinitis, rhinosinusitis, nasal obstruction and septal surgery, voice disorders, dysphagia, otitis media, hearing impairment, dizziness, tinnitus, adenotonsilitis, sleep-disordered breathing, facial paralysis, reflux, oral health, oral and maxillofacial surgery, and orthognathic surgery. Recently, there has been increased interest in PROMs among clinicians, healthcare providers, and health system-level policy developers.

We invite authors to contribute to the Special Issue of the Journal of Clinical Medicine on “Patient-Reported Outcome Measures in Diseases of the Head and Neck” studies investigating the use of PROMs in clinical practice, clinical research, quality improvement, and health system policy development for diseases of the head and neck. This includes but is not limited to studies showcasing how PROMs can facilitate the tracking of health outcomes over time, enable comparisons between an individual patient’s outcomes with those of other patients with the same health conditions, contribute to the provision of person-centered and value-based care, improve clinician–patient communication, inform shared decision making, and help to analyze the comparative effectiveness of treatments, variations in care, costs, and outcomes among healthcare providers and the effectiveness of quality improvement activities.

Prof. Dr. Athanasia Printza
Dr. Athanassios Kyrgidis
Guest Editors

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