Application status and research progress of patient-reported outcome at domestic and abroad postprint

Abstract: Patient-reported outcome (PRO) refers to any information directly from the patient’s own health condition, functional status, and treatment experience without amendment or interpretation of the patient’s response by a clinician or anyone else. In recent years, with the rapid development of PRO research and application, PRO has been widely used in clinical effectiveness assessment, new drug review and approval, health economics evaluation, etc. This study aims to comprehensively sort out the frontier progress and development trend of PRO at domestic and abroad, in order to provide some references for the research and application of PRO in China.