Outcome measures: making it work in clinical practice

On the 10 June, we were joined by Prof Fliss Murtagh, Professor of Palliative Care, and Director of the Wolfson Palliative Care Research Centre, and Dr Alison Landon, Palliative Care Physician at St Christopher’s Hospice, for a workshop giving an overview of patient-centred outcome measures (PCOMs), including the Integrated Palliative Outcome Scale (IPOS) and Australia-modified Karnofsky Performance Scale (AKPS). We explored what they are, why they are important, how to ask and record the data, and the clinical reality of how they are used in practice.