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Adding Value to Patient-Reported Outcomes: Applying PRO’s to Effective Communication

Dr Mitch Golant

Vice President, Cancer Support Community

PRO’s: Community-based Perspective

• Treatment adherence and clinical trial participation can be enhanced by better doctor-patient communication

• Patients often “freeze” and forget to ask the questions that keep them up

• Patient decision, information, and communication needs are currently unmet.

CSC Research: Treatment Decision Counseling

• Connecting patients with high-quality information

• Prompting them to review it

• Helping them develop a list of questions for their h i i b d th i iti l i tphysicians based upon their concerns positively impacts

outcomes