Patient-centered care relies on the ability to identify, measure, and communicate outcomes that are meaningful to patients and clinically relevant to healthcare professionals. This raises specific methodological challenges related to the definition of relevant outcomes, the validity and comparability of measurement instruments, and their translation into feasible and useful tools for routine clinical practice.
The DEVICE axis aims to address these challenges through the definition of meaningful health outcomes, the development and validation of robust measurement instruments, and their implementation in clinical practice.
The DEVICE axis is structured around three main objectives:
- To define what should be assessed through conceptual frameworks and Core Outcome Sets;
- To measure clinical outcomes, symptoms, quality of life, patient experience, and preferences using robust and innovative instruments, notably standardized or adaptive questionnaires with strong psychometric properties;
- To develop and implement standardized tools for clinical practice supporting shared decision-making and physician–patient communication, by facilitating the expression of patients’ needs, expectations, and outcomes that matter to them.
- Hardouin, J.-B., Pierre-Paul, D., Rhun, A. L., Tessier, P., Bourdon, M., & Moret, L. Development and psychometric validation of the PERQOLATEUR questionnaire : An individualized self-report measure of the impact of chronic illness and treatment in clinical practice. Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes (2026).
Read the publication - Chaumier, F., Hardouin, J.-B., & Bourdon, M. Development and Content Validation of a Brief French Tool for Self-Assessment of Supportive and Palliative Care Needs in Patients with Cancer : The ACCOmPAgNE Tool. European Journal of Cancer Care (2023).
Read the publication - Chan, S., Cazzolli, R., Jaure, A., Johnson, D. W., Hawley, C. M., Craig, J. C., Sautenet, B., van Zwieten, A., Cao, C., Dobrijevic, E., Wilson, G., Scholes-Robertson, N., Carter, S., Vastani, T., Cho, Y., Blumberg, E., Brennan, D. C., Huuskes, B. M., Knoll, G., … SONG-Tx Infection Workshop Investigators. Report of the Standardized Outcomes in Nephrology-transplant Consensus Workshop on Establishing a Core Outcome Measure for Infection in Kidney Transplant Recipients. Transplantation (2024).
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PERIMETER – a DEVICE project
PERception based Individualized MEasurement and Tool development for Evidence based Research
- Bringing together several projects within the DEVICE research axis under a shared methodological framework for the development of individualized person-centered instruments
- A common approach to defining, developing, validating and implementing relevant, comparable and practice-oriented instruments that can be transferred across a wide range of healthcare settings.