Save the Date: September 17 AHRQ CAHPS Research Meeting on Patient-Reported Experience and Outcome Measures in Research and Clinical Practice

Save the Date! Sept. 17 — Virtual Research Meeting on “Patient-Reported Experience and Outcome Measures in Research and Clinical Practice” Date: Tuesday, September 17, 2024 Time: 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. ET On September 17, AHRQ’s Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS®) program will host a free virtual research meeting to explore the differences between patient-reported experience measures (PREMs) and patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs), how they are connected, and how they can be used to measure and improve the quality and value of healthcare. The CAHPS Research Meeting will share current research on the following questions: What are the differences between PREMs and PROMs? How are PREMs and PROMs interconnected? How can PREMs and PROMs best be used to improve quality and promote value-based healthcare? What are future directions for PREMs and PROMs research and use in clinical practice? Eugene Nelson, Sc.D., Professor of Community and Family Medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, will present the keynote address on “How Patient Experience and Patient-Reported Outcome Measures Are Interconnected.” The CAHPS Research Meeting is open to the public. AHRQ invites CAHPS survey users, researchers, healthcare organization leaders, patient advocates, policymakers, federal partners, and others interested in the relationship between PREMs and PROMs. Registration details will be available this summer. For questions, please contact the CAHPS User Network at cahps1@westat.com or 1-800-492-9261.