Bonnie Bruce

TL;DR: The NIHPROMIS network derived a consensus-based framework for self-reported health, systematically reviewed available instruments and datasets that address the initial PROMIS domains, and began testing of item banks covering 5 broad domains of self- reported health.

TL;DR: The Health Assessment Questionnaire has established itself as a valuable, effective, and sensitive tool for measurement of health status and has increased the credibility and use of validated self-report measurement techniques as a quantifiable set of hard data endpoints and has contributed to a new appreciation of outcome assessment.

TL;DR: The Health Assessment Questionnaire was designed to represent a model of patient-oriented outcome assessment and has played a major role in many diverse areas such as prediction of successful aging, inversion of the therapeutic pyramid in rheumatoid arthritis, quantification of NSAID gastropathy, development of risk factor models for osteoarthrosis, and examination of mortality risks in RA.

TL;DR: The Health Assessment Questionnaire (HAQ), introduced in 1980, is among the first PRO instruments designed to represent a model of patient-oriented outcome assessment, and has been significantly correlated with other PRO instruments.

TL;DR: The PROMIS tools, expected to improve precision and enable assessment at the individual patient level which should broaden the appeal of PROs, will begin to be available to the general medical community in 2008.