Collaboration for Academic Primary Care (APEx) Blog
Collaboration for Academic Primary Care (APEx) Blog
Posted by jchoules
14 June 2016The 2016 UK Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) research conference took place last week in Sheffield (#PROMsconf2016). Over one hundred participants took part, attending 12 parallel sessions and one poster session and plenaries on Computerized adaptive testing by Professor Tim Croudace, Dundee (discussant; Dr Chris Gibbons, Cambridge); Feedback on PROMs to healthcare providers by Associate Professor Joanne Greenhalgh (discussant: Prof John Browne, Cork); and Wellbeing by Professor John Brazier, Sheffield (discussant: Colin Green, Exeter).
The APEx team: from left to right, Jon Evans, Ian Porter, Jaheeda Gangannagaripalli, Antoinette Davey, Jose M Valderas
APEx members Dr Ian Porter and Prof Jose M Valderas presented oral communications and Jaheeda Gangannagaripalli presented a poster on clinical applications of PROMs.
The conference was co-hosted by Professor John Brazier, Sheffield; Elizabeth Gibbons, Oxford; Professor Jose M Valderas, Exeter; and Dr Georgina Jones, Sheffield; and chaired by Professor Ray Fitzpatrick, Oxford. The conference was supported by NIHR CLAHRCs Peninsula, Yorkshire and Humber, Oxford, and East of England.
A pre-conference course on fundamentals of PROMs measurement organised by the International Society for Quality of Life Research (ISOQOL) was delivered by Prof Jose M Valderas and Dr William Lenderking, Evidera, Boston, US.
Professor Jose M Valderas
June 2016