Patient-Reported Outcome Measures to Patient-Reported Outcome Performance Measures - Technical Guidance Final Report 

Digital patient-reported outcome performance measures (PRO-PMs) offer an important measurement opportunity to ensure that patient voices are captured in assessments of quality. The Building a Roadmap from Patient-Reported Outcome Measures to Patient-Reported Outcome Performance Measures initiative, funded by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), aims to identify and lower barriers to the development of digital PRO-PMs. The Technical Guidance Report (or Roadmap) compiles existing resources on measure development, endorsement, and interoperability and frames them through the lens of patient-reported performance measurement. The Roadmap helps measure developers navigate the steps required to develop a high quality digital PRO-PM by focusing on aspects of measure development that are unique to PRO-PMs. The Roadmap, which includes four stages composed of 17 distinct tasks detailing the PRO-PM development process, is a primer that will help measure developers understand a complicated process, ask informed questions, and ultimately catalyze building a more robust database of digital PRO-PMs.