OBJECTIVE: To determine (1) how medical registries provide information feedback to health
care professionals, (2) whether this feedback has any effect on the quality of care and (3) …

Background Providing health professionals with quantitative summaries of their clinical
performance when treating specific groups of patients (“feedback”) is a widely used quality …

Despite the potential for patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) and experience
measures (PREMs) to enhance understanding of patient experiences and outcomes they have …

Results Patients very much or extremely bothered by itching declined from 28% in 1996 to
18% in 2015. In 2012–2015, among patients nearly always or always bothered by itching, …

Background Audit and feedback is a common intervention for supporting clinical behaviour
change. Increasingly, health data are available in electronic format. Yet, little is known …

Life-space mobility (LSM) is a holistic measure of resilience to physical decline and social
isolation in later life. To promote its use as an outcome in geriatric studies and in clinical …

Background Although arteriovenous fistulas (AVFs) are actively promoted, their use at the
start of haemodialysis (HD) seems to be decreasing worldwide. In this paper, we describe …

Background Hyponatremia is a common electrolyte disorder. Multiple organizations have
published guidance documents to assist clinicians in managing hyponatremia. We aimed to …

Individuals with kidney failure undergoing maintenance dialysis frequently report a high
symptom burden that can interfere with functioning and diminish life satisfaction. Until recently, …

Objectives To establish the acceptability and feasibility of collecting daily patient-generated
health data (PGHD) using smartphones and integrating PGHD into the electronic health …