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PROMIS scores are tracking with things that you and I are familiar with…over time, patients getting better on therapies that we would expect them to. I think this is additional validation – not just from the National Institutes of Health and a decade of research by lots of different groups, but in our own field – that these actually correlate with disease activity and that when you start an effective therapy they’re going to improve as you would anticipate.

PROMIS® results give me a good idea of how a patient is doing before I enter the room. I have noticed that adolescents are more willing to tell an iPad that they are struggling with peer relationships than to volunteer this information in response to in-person questioning. PROMIS has helped me uncover issues that I would have otherwise missed.

PROMIS has stimulated me to have more in-depth conversations with my patients. The tool is helping me become a better doctor. I also find that I am ordering more OT consults. I believe it is improving the care of the whole child.

What has come across as most powerful so far is that patients seem to be very grateful that someone is actually addressing these topics and is going to the lengths to try to help them as a whole person.