Using Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) to Support Adherence to Falls Prevention Clinic

The goal of this project was to create an approach that utilizes Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) data to help improve patients’ adherence to falls prevention recommendations. Better adherence would lead to fewer falls over time, and thus, save health care dollars.

1. We conducted a qualitative study, designed with patient partners who received care previously from the Falls Prevention Clinic. Our goal was to understand whether individualized PROMs data, such as the“EuroQol 5 domain – 5 level” (EQ-5D-5L) PROM, could be used to facilitate improved adherence to Falls Prevention Clinic recommendations.
   
   The purpose of improving adherence to evidence based recommendations was to prevent more falls. This study explored Falls Prevention Clinic patient participants’ perspectives on PROMs, and how PROMs might impact their own adherence to multimodal fall prevention recommendations.
   
   
2. We gained valuable feedback from the patient partners on their views of the EQ-5D-5L PROM, as well as their perspectives on our focus group questions. Access a summary of our findings here.