In the UK Lord Darzi’s review of the NHS has recommends that patient reported outcome measures (PROMS) become a stronger part of the NHS approach to quality.

Florence Nightingale first drew attention to the need for outcome measures but 150 years later the NHS is getting round to considering how these measures could become part of normal work.

PROMS have been used extensively in clinical trials to determine the effectiveness of treatments, but now it appears they will become routine in UK healthcare.

Two standard measures for health status and quality life are available EQ-5D and the SF-36 but there are many disease specific PROMS.

The problem is how to consistently record and analyse these outcome measures over time for an individual patient and for a group of patients.

Dawn Clinical Framework software is a comprehensive software toolkit that addresses many of the functions of running disease specific clinics but also has a highly configurable scoring and questionnaire module that that can record and calculate the scores and track them over time. It is ideal for tracking patients who are taking potentially harmful medications or treatments.

Most disease areas can be handled for example

- Anticoagulation
- Rheumatology
- Anaemia and Chronic Kidney Disease
- Hepatitis C
- Gastroenterology
- Dermatology

See the examples for -

Rheumatology

Anaemia

The Dawn software combined with the powerful dashboard and d-hoc reporting tool Qlikview provides an excellent platform for healthcare units to start capturing and monitoring outcome measures.
 

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