Patient reported outcomes empower patients to be active partners in their care

Symptoms of a cancer diagnosis are not just physical. Patients often have concerns that affect their health but are seldom talked about with their care teams. The impact of their cancer can also be felt emotionally and mentally, in ways less apparent to physicians. The patient’s perspective is key in such situations.
The Partnership’s Person-Centred Perspective (PCP) program and its Patient Reported Outcomes (PROs) Initiative aim to improve the patient experience across the cancer journey, with the goal of all jurisdictions establishing a measurement and reporting cycle for the patient experience by 2017. Read more here.