title: [Problems to pay attention to in taking patient-reported outcomes as clinical outcomes assessment].
abstract: Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) provide clinical researchers with a good means to assess patient-based outcomes. Yet there are still some problems to pay attention to while using PROs as an effectiveness assessment index, including the selection of an appropriate scale of PRO, quality control in PRO data collection, and the interpretations and application ranges of the PRO results.
authors.affiliation: DME Center, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou 510405.
authors.forename: Wei-hua
authors.initials: WH
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Wei-xiong
authors.initials: WX
authors.lastname: Liang
authors.forename: Qi
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D011594:Psychometrics; D011786:Quality Control