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Current Psychiatry Reviews

Editor-in-Chief

ISSN (Print): 1573-4005
ISSN (Online): 1875-6441

Review Article

Seeing the Person in the Patient: Making the Case for Individualized PROMs in Mental Health Care

Author(s): Celia M.D. Sales*

Volume 13, Issue 3, 2017

Page: [184 - 187] Pages: 4

DOI: 10.2174/1573400513666170505111736

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Abstract

This article presents the emergent approach of personalized assessment in mental health care, which combines standardized patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) with individualized measures (I-PROMs). Each patient has a unique clinical condition, with a set of problems and presentations specific to his or her person and circumstances. I-PROMs inform clinicians about idiosyncratic problems that cannot be captured in pre-set standardized PROMs, thus tailoring assessment to the person, and accomplishing the requirements of patient-centred outcomes assessment. Implications for managed care systems are discussed.

Keywords: I-PROMs, PROMs, personalized assessment, individualized, quality, managed care, mental health.


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