Cancelled: Understanding and using patient-reported outcome measures (2025)

Welcome to Understanding and using patient-reported outcome measures (2025)

Description: Patient-reported outcome measures (PROM) are reported directly by the patient and are powerful tools to inform clinicians and researchers about the patient's subjective experience. During the course, the participants will be introduced to the term PROM and learn how to utilize the PROM tools in their own research. The course will encompass the development and objective validation of PROMs, how they are analyzed from a statistical perspective and how they can be used alongside registry data and in large database studies for research and clinical purposes.

Prerequisites: N/A

Learning objectives: Learning goals: 

(1) Selection of PROM, analysis, and reporting, 

(2) Understanding of strengths and limitations, validity and reliability, 

(3) Learning to increase response rate and how to handle non-response and missing data, 

(4) Understanding the use of PROM with register data and in large databases, 

(5) Understand the link between points 1 & 2 and the consequences of point 3 & 4.

Teaching methods: Lectures, exercises with supervision from lecturer, student presentations and home assignments.

Criteria for assessment: Based on participation in lectures.

Key literature: 

1. Benson T. Patient-reported outcomes and experience: measuring what we want from PROMs and PREMs. Cham: Springer, 2022. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-97071-0    

2. McKenna, S.P., Measuring patient-reported outcomes: moving beyond misplaced common sense to hard science, BMC Med 9, 86 (2011), https://doi.org/10.1186/1741-7015-9-86    

3. Svensson, E., Comparison of the Quality of Assessments Using Continuous and Discrete Ordinal Rating Scales (2020) https://doi.org/10.1002/1521-4036(200008)42:4<417::AID-BIMJ417>3.0.CO;2-Z

Organizer: Esben Bolvig Mark

Lecturers: Esben Bolvig Mark, Rikke Jørgensen, Sten Rasmussen, Lone Jørgensen, Jakob Lykke Poulsen, Louise Kuhlmann Asferg, Søren Paaske Johnsen, Jan Brink Valentin, Michael Skovdahl Rathleff

ECTS: 2.0

Time: New dates: 11, 18 and 23 September 2025

Place: Aalborg University

Zip code: 9220

City: Aalborg

Maximal number of participants: 20

Deadline:  21 August 2025 25 August 2025

Important information concerning PhD courses: 

There is a no-show fee of DKK 3,000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before the start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start of the course.

For external PhD students: This course is a general course and is prioritised for PhD Students enrolled at Aalborg University. If there are available seats, PhD students from other universities will be accepted. You will be notified shortly after the deadline if you have been accepted.

To attend courses at the Doctoral School in Medicine, Biomedical Science and Technology you must be enrolled as a PhD student.

We cannot ensure any seats before the deadline for enrolment, all participants will be informed after the deadline, approximately 3 weeks before the start of the course.

For inquiries regarding registration, cancellation or waiting list, please contact the PhD administration at phdcourses@adm.aau.dk When contacting us please state the course title and course period. Thank you.