Draft Guiding Principles for Patient Reported Measures

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.

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.

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.