Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) questionnaires are increasingly being used across the whole of healthcare as an acceptable way of quickly and easily recording a patient’s own opinion of the effect of their treatment. Standardised and reliable, PROMs allows individual osteopaths to collect data on their practice and compare it to a national benchmark. It also provides a valuable evidence base for the profession.
The PROMs app, developed by the National Council for Osteopathic Research (NCOR), has been in use over the past year, and a summary of the national findings are presented. The data for one anonymous osteopath has been provided to show how data can be used to inform practice development.