Tim Benson
Director at R-Outcomes Ltd Patient leader at Royal Berkshire Hospital
R-Outcomes Ltd, Royal Berkshire Hospital
England - Oxford
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Tim Benson posted a new activity comment 2 years, 7 months ago
I am writing a book on PROMs and PREMs and have just done a 600-word section on digital literacy and readability, which I provide below. Comments welcomed.
Readability
Respondent burden depends on brevity and readability. Brevity is easy to measure – just count the words. Readability is more nuanced.Poor readability is a self-inflicted error b…Read more
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Tim Benson posted a new activity comment 2 years, 11 months ago
There are quite a lot of work on individualised outcome measures. We have developed one we call PSO (Person-specific outcomes). It is currently in the peer-review process, but I can semd you details if you wish.
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Tim Benson and Joanna Bircher are now friends 3 years ago
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Tim Benson posted a new activity comment 3 years ago
I think that resourcing Spread is also crucial. We have evaluated several projects and found that Spread was the key issue. Just because you have developed, validated and published in a peer-review journal that you have a better mouse-trap or whatever, does not mean that others will either adopt it, or if they do will get good results. It usually…Read more
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Tim Benson and Henry Cann are now friends 3 years ago
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Tim Benson posted a new activity comment 3 years, 1 month ago
Both Matthew and Wiliam mention PAM, which has been around for some time. You might also check out the Health Confidence Score (HCS), which is newer, broader and shorter but does much the same job.
https://bmjopenquality.bmj.com/content/bmjqir/8/2/e000411.full.pdf-
Hi @william-eric-bostock, @nigelhart and @timbenson – will sit down and reply properly when I have a bit more time.
I know the Health Foundation itself was involved in work on PAM (might’ve even been connected to Islington). I’ll see if I can surface any of it…
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Tim Benson posted a new activity comment 3 years, 1 month ago
This issue is fundamental. Medicine is siloed in a fundamental way. Doctors are grouped, trained and rewarded (think distinction/clinical excellence awards) according to their specialty. This affects the whole system (as Aneurin Bevan recognised). I doubt this problem will be sorted any time soon, but in the mean time any one-size-fits-all…Read more
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Jack and Tim Benson are now friends 3 years, 2 months ago
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Thanks for your very swift response Tim, I will email you.