Table 1.

Glossary of terms

Abbreviation	Full text	Definition	Examples
PRO	Patient-reported outcome	Any report of the status of a patient’s health condition that comes directly from the patient, without interpretation of the patient’s response by a clinician or anyone else [61]	Depression Pain
PROM	Patient-reported outcome measure	A questionnaire used to measure the PRO	Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) for pain
PROMIS	Patient-reported outcomes measurement information system	A set of generic PROMs that can be used as short forms or CAT to measure aspects of physical, mental, and social health in adults and children across medical conditions	www.healthmeasures.net/promis
PROMIS measure	Patient-reported outcomes measurement information system measure	A PROM (short form or CAT) from the PROMIS system	PROMIS® Item Bank V1.0 Depression-Short Form 8a PROMIS® Item Bank V1.1 Pain Interference CAT

CAT Computerized Adaptive Test, where a computer algorithm consecutively selects questions from a large set of questions (item bank), based on responses to previous questions