A Brief Patient-Reported Outcomes Quality of Life (PROQOL) Instrument to Improve Patient Care
PLoS MedicinePublished 12 November 2013Open access
Jennifer L. Ridgeway, Timothy J. Beebe, Christopher G. Chute, David T. Eton, Lacey Hart, Marlene H. Frost
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The development of the Patient-Reported Outcomes Quality of Life (PROQOL) instrument, which captures and stores patient-recorded outcomes in the medical record for patients with diabetes, is described.
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Jeff Sloan and colleagues describe the development of the Patient-Reported Outcomes Quality of Life (PROQOL) instrument, which captures and stores patient-recorded outcomes in the medical record for patients with diabetes. Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary.
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