Patients are experts in their own health and should be treated as equal partners in their care.
Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) are an effective way of gathering patient feedback on how they perceive their health status, the information can be used to improve decision making and for service improvement.
Patient-reported experience measures (PREMs) are instruments that capture a patient's experience of receiving care, specifically the patient's perception of what happened during their care encounter and how it happened.
PROMs and PREMs have been adopted for critical care patients in Wales and all health boards are expected to collect this data in follow-up clinics in a standardised format.
For all those who attend a critical care recovery clinic the following patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) must be used: