ePRO services
ePROs (electronic Patient Reported Outcomes) are used increasingly in the collection of patient data as part of clinical trials and observational studies. Oxford Outcomes is a market leader in ePRO measure development and validation. Our teams in Oxford and Bethesda bring together opinion-leading scientific expertise, knowledge of marketplace and regulatory landscapes, together with consultancy skills and deep understanding of client needs.
 
We have conducted a number of ePRO development and validation studies and provide the following services:
- Strategic advice and trial design.
- ePRO development.
- Migrating PROs to ePRO format.
- Cognitive debriefing and usability testing.
- Exploring patient views of PDAs.
- Cell-phone based applications.
- Equivalence studies.
- Psychometric validation studies.
- Integrated linguistic validation and ePRO cognitive debriefing studies.
We are able to conduct validation studies across a broad range of national markets to meet regulatory and/or scientific publication standards. We are also to integrate ePRO validation, Translation and Linguistic Validation processes, achieving overall time and cost savings for our clients
Our team contributes to the scientific advancement of ePRO services; our Director, Andrew Lloyd, is the Chair of the Digital Task Force within the EuroQol group, a group charged with overseeing digital applications of EQ-5D, which has developed guidance for ePRO vendors and a web-based version of the EQ-5D. For more about our team and their recent publications click here.