Table 2.

Use Case Scenarios

‘Patient Care’ Use Case Scenario	‘Quality Improvement’ (QI) Use Case Scenario
Dr. Jones is seeing a patient for a 12-month surgery follow-up. The patient has reported pain and disability outcomes prior to surgery, and following surgery, at 30 days, 6 months, and 1 year. Dr. Jones wants to share this data with the patient during the follow-up visits to discuss changes in out-comes since surgery.	John is a hospital administrator who wants to compare outcomes of patients who had different levels of pain before surgery. He has available PROs that include scores for low back pain at baseline before surgery, and at 30 days, 6 months, and 1 year following surgery for all patients who had surgery at his hospital for the past 5 years.