Register today to attend the ISOQOL 1st Virtual Symposium, an event focused on challenges that healthcare providers (HCPs) encounter in the integration of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) into routine practice.

Scheduled for three half-days from 6-8 May 2025, this virtual event will consist of panel discussions, presentations, an interactive online activity, real world case studies, and live attendee engagement and interaction with the speakers.

Session Highlight

Session 3: Building the Capabilities of HCPs to Integrate PROMs into Care Consultations

Most often HCPs have little experience with PROMs in their formal education. To use PROMs effectively, the first step for HCPs is to develop the knowledge and skills to use PROMs in routine practice. This session focusses on capabilities, the first component of the COM-B model. Practical knowledge (knowing what PROMs are) is crucial for HCPs to feel confident using them. Many studies show that providers need to understand these measures and how to apply them in practice. They also need procedural knowledge (knowing how to use PROMs) to fit them into their routines. As providers become more familiar with PROMs, they need to develop practical skills (e.g., administering PROMs, scoring and interpreting the results to guide patient care, and integrating PROMs into clinical conversations). This session will explore how knowledge and skills needed can vary for HCPs from various professional backgrounds and in different clinical settings.

Session Speakers:

Angela C. Wolff, PhD RN

School of Nursing, Trinity Western University

  
Angela C. Wolff, PhD, RN is an Associate Professor at the Trinity Western University School of Nursing (British Columbia, Canada) where she teaches leadership and research-based courses and conducts research about how healthcare providers successfully integrate people-centered assessment tools into practice. Angela has received numerous grants to support this work including a systematic review about barriers and facilitators for patient-reported outcome measure adoption and knowledge translation for the routine use of quality-of-life assessments in community mental health. Her most recent innovation grant is about incorporating equitable people-centered assessments (in the form of PROMs) into undergraduate nursing education. Her involvement in ISOQOL includes Co-Chair of the Clinical Practice Special Interest Group and leading workshops on preparing clinicians to adopt PROMs. Angela is passionate advancing the professional practice of nurses to provide people-centered equitable healthcare to patients, families, and communities.

Liv Marit Valen Schougaard, PhD

AmbuFlex – Centre for Patient-reported Outcomes, Gødstrup Hospital

  
I am a registered nurse and completed my Master of Health Science in 2011 and my PhD in 2020. Since 2011, using PROs in clinical practice has been the focus of my work and research. The main topic of my research is the use of PROs in remote care for patients with chronic and malignant diseases. I have experience with several quantitative research designs, including randomized controlled trials, cohort studies, and cross-sectional studies. I have also been involved in several qualitative research studies.