Cure8 research brief
PRO2 and PRO3 were recorded far more often than CDAI or HBI in routine care and correlated strongly with those clinician-scored indices, so they may be a practical way to monitor Crohn’s activity and support real-world research.
Clinicians and IBD care teams; researchers using EMR or registry data for IBD; adult patients with Crohn’s disease interested in disease monitoring.
This study compared how often common Crohn’s disease activity scores could be calculated in routine care and how well simpler patient-reported outcome measures (PRO2 and PRO3) agree with longer clinician-scored indices (CDAI and HBI).
In a large Australasia electronic medical record dataset, PRO2/PRO3 were captured at about 81% of visits versus ~25–28% for CDAI/HBI. PRO2 and PRO3 showed strong correlation and high agreement with CDAI and HBI severity categories.
Summary is grounded in the article abstract (structured content depth: abstract). The study reports capture rates and correlations from an Australasia EMR; it does not provide patient-level outcomes or implementation guidance beyond the reported data.
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