Medical Writing Patient-reported outcomes

Volume 27, Issue 4 - Patient-reported outcomes

December 2018

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Editorial

Patient reported outcomes
Author: Diarmuid De Faoite

President's Message

President's Message
Author: Tiziana von Bruchhausen

EMWA News

EMWA News
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Feature Articles

Measuring health outcomes: The foundation of contemporary healthcare decision-making
Author: Paul Kind

Measuring quality of life – theoretical background
Author: Maria Kołtowska-Häggström

Quality of life measures – an overview
Author: Maria Kołtowska-Häggström

Publication planning and patient-reported outcomes: Demonstrating value in a multi-stakeholder era
Author: Richard White

Patient-reported outcome measure translation: An overview
Authors: Cate Talley, Shawn McKown

Systematic hospital collection of patient-reported outcome data via patient apps
Authors: Rikke Havner Alro, Marie-Louise Krogh, Claire Gudex

The PROMIS of electronic patient-reported outcomes
Author: Diarmuid De Faoite

Interview with Professor Matthias Rose on developing patient-reported outcomes and the PROMIS initiative
Author: Diarmuid De Faoite

The UK pharmaceutical industry braces for Brexit, be it mild, severe, or doomsday
Authors: David Rogers, Ben Rogers, Jacob Lewis, Elsa Lewis

Awareness of medical writing as a profession and its career prospects
Authors: Pinki Rajeev, Mittal Makhija

Estimands – closing the gap between study design and analysis
Authors: Helen Bridge, Thomas M. Schindler

Protecting the rights of clinical trial patients through disclosure: The significance of plain language
Author: Rosemary Meister

Medical Devices
Authors: Beatrix Döerr, Gillian Pritchard

In the Bookstores
Authors: Alison McIntosh, Stephen Gilliver, Nicholas Churton

News from the EMA

News from the EMA
Authors: Anuradha Alahari, Monika Benstetter

Regular Sections

Regulatory Matters & Regulatory Public Disclosure
Authors: Jennifer Morris, Sam Hamilton, Jessica Williams, Kathy B. Thomas

Medical Communications
Authors: Lisa Chamberlain James, Diana Radovan

Journal Watch
Author: Hervé Maisonneuve

Good Writing Practice
Authors: Wendy Kingdom, Amy Whereat, Michael Lewis Schneir

Getting Your Foot In The Door
Authors: Raquel Billiones, Abe Shevack, Ma. Michalyn Laurente, Jude Genesis Flores

My First Medical Writing
Authors: Evguenia Alechine, Matías Rey-Carrizo

Out On Our Own

Out on Our Own
Authors: Katharina Klesper (née Kolbe), Silvia Paz Ruiz, Sarah Smith

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Medical Writing is a quarterly publication that aims to educate and inform medical writers in Europe and beyond. Each issue focuses on a specific theme, and all issues include feature articles and regular columns on topics relevant to the practice of medical writing. We welcome articles providing practical advice to medical writers; guidelines and reviews/summaries/updates of guidelines published elsewhere; original research; opinion pieces; interviews; and review articles.

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Editor-in-Chief

Raquel Billiones

Co-Editors

Evguenia Alechine

Jonathan Pitt

Managing Editor

Victoria White

Deputy Managing Editor

Alicia Brooks Waltman

Associate Editors

Anuradha Alahari

Jennifer Bell

Nicole Bezuidenhout

Claire Chang

Barbara Grossman

Sarah Milner

John Plant

Sampoorna Rappaz

Amy Whereat

Section Editors

Daniela Kamir

AI/Automation

Jennifer Bell

Biotechnology

Nicole Bezuidenhout 

Digital Communication

Somsuvro Basu

EMWA News 

Adriana Rocha

Freelancing

Ana Sofia Correia 

Gained in Translation

Ivana Turek

Getting Your Foot in the Door

Wendy Kingdom / Amy Whereat

Good Writing Practice

Pablo Izquierdo / Alison McIntosh 

In the Bookstores

Maria Kołtowska-Häggström

Lingua Franca and Beyond

Maddy Dyer

Publications

Lisa Chamberlain-James

Medical Communications/Writing for Patients

Payal Bhatia

Medical Devices

Evguenia Alechine

My First Medical Writing

Anuradha Alahari

News from the EMA

Tiziana von Bruchhausen

Pharmacovigilance

Clare Chang / Zuo Yen Lee 

Regulatory Matters

Sam Hamilton

Regulatory Public Disclosure

Louisa Ludwig-Begall / Sarah Kabani

The Crofter: Sustainable Communications

Jeff Blair / Luiza Ventura

Veterinary Writing

Editors Emeritus

Elise Langdon-Neuner

Phil Leventhal

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