title: The History of Patient-Reported Outcomes in Rheumatology.
abstract: The rheumatology community began incorporating patient-reported outcomes in the early 1980s, helping shift the care of chronic diseases from a narrower biomedical model to a broader biopsychosocial model of health. Early efforts were focused primarily in clinical trials and clinical research, but over the last decade there has been increasing use in routine rheumatology clinical care. More than 250 valid and reliable scales to assess domains of importance to patients with rheumatic conditions have been developed. The approach to measurement continues to be refined. Rheumatology has much to be proud of in contributions to the important field of patient-reported outcomes.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Thurston Arthritis Research Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 3330 Thurston Building, CB 7280, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA. Electronic address: Leigh_Callahan@med.unc.edu.
authors.forename: Leigh F
authors.initials: LF
authors.lastname: Callahan
mesh_terms: D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D000071066:Patient Reported Outcome Measures; D012216:Rheumatic Diseases / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000523:psychology; D012219:Rheumatology / Q000266:history*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
keywords: Arthritis Impact Measurement Scales; Health Assessment Questionnaire; Health status assessment; Patient-reported outcomes; Rheumatic diseases; Rheumatology; Self-report measures