Draft Guiding Principles for Patient Reported Measures
Feedback updated 18 Jul 2025
We asked
WA Health has been developing guiding principles for the selection, collection, use and reporting of Patient Reported Measures (PRMs) which includes both Patient Reported Experience Measures (PREMs) and Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs).We asked for your feedback on the draft guiding principles, this included whether they were clear, relevant, appropriate and if worked well together to reflect a balance approach to system-wide use of PRMs.
You said
We received 101 responses, with good representation from our consumer and carer community as well as WA Health staff. Overall, there was a very high level of support for the draft guiding principles with some suggestions for re-wording and queries about how these would be applied or work in practice.
We did
As a result of the feedback, we have made some minor adjustments to these guiding principles to ensure their intent is clear. We have also developed an overarching statement describe the purpose, use and expected audience for these guiding principles. The final version of these can be viewed in the pdf below.
We will be using these to guide the next stages of this project looking at selection of PROMs for use within the WA Health System. If you would like us to let you know when future engagement opportunities arise relating to this project, please send us an email at health.policy@health.wa.gov.au.
Results updated 18 Jul 2025
Files:
- Guiding Priniciples for Patient Reported Measures, 144.9 KB (PDF document)
Overview
WA Health is developing guiding principles for the selection, collection, use and reporting of Patient Reported Measures (PRMs) which includes both Patient Reported Experience Measures (PREMs) and Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs). This work is part of the “Improving safety and quality in health care – A strategic plan for action in WA 2024 – 2026” and the Sustainable Health Review Recommendation 4 priority for transparent public reporting of patient and carer reporting measures.
Once finalised these principles will guide WA Health’s approach to PRMs that are or will be collected in State-wide manner.
Why your views matter
Patient reported measures are tools which collect information from patients about their experiences or health outcomes. These tools provide value to everyone in the health system from the patients or carers who respond to these, to the clinicians and health services that use the information to improve the care and services they offer. Within this survey more detailed background information on PRMs is provided.
This is your opportunity to guide the way WA Health selects and uses these tools at a system-wide level by providing feedback on our draft guiding principles. There is also an opportunity towards the end of the survey to provide your contact details if you are interested in participating in future work in this area.
Audiences
- Consumers
- Doctors
- WA Health Service Providers
- Health professionals
- Researchers
Interests
- Feedback
- Consumer/carer/community engagement
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