TY - JOUR T1 - Person-specific outcome measure (PSO) for use in primary and community care JF - BMJ Open Quality JO - BMJ Open Qual DO - 10.1136/bmjoq-2021-001379 VL - 10 IS - 2 SP - e001379 AU - Tim Benson Y1 - 2021/04/01 UR - http://bmjopenquality.bmj.com/content/10/2/e001379.abstract N2 - Patient-reported outcome and experience measures (PROMs and PREMs) fall into three broad categories: condition-specific measures, which are applicable to patients with specific conditions only; generic measures, which apply to all types of patient; and individualised or person-specific measures (iPROMs), which let people identify issues that are most important to them.1 2 Thousands of condition-specific measures have been developed mainly for use in clinical trials; standardised generic measures are widely used in evaluation, for quality improvement and for allocating resources between different groups. However, fewer individualised measures have been developed, although there is increasing awareness of their value in tailoring personalised care in domains such as social prescribing. Individualised measures need to be used alongside generic or condition-specific measures because every patient has their own set of priorities and some are much easier to resolve than others.Several individualised measures were developed during the 1990s, such as SEIQOL (Schedule for Evaluation of Individual Quality Of Life),3 PGI (Patient Generated Index)4 and MYMOP (Measure Yourself Medical Outcome Profile).5 MYMOP evolved into MYCaW (Measure Yourself Concerns and Wellbeing), which is a little simpler, with two concerns plus well-being.6 7At the request of customers working in social prescribing projects, at R-Outcomes we used MYMOP and then MYCaW alongside our other measures. This identified a number of issues, which led to the development of a new iPROM, the person-specific outcome (PSO) measure, which is described here.Development of the measureWe designed … ER -