OBERD collaborates with Oxford University Innovation to promote web-based best-in-class PROMs at AAOS 2017

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Feb 23, 2017, 12:38 ET

COLUMBIA, Mo., Feb. 23, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- OBERD will be promoting the best-in-class Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) licensed by Oxford University Innovation (OUI) at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons' (AAOS) Annual Meeting this year. OBERD has collaborated with OUI to develop web-based versions of the Oxford Hip Score, the Oxford Knee Score, Oxford Shoulder Score, Oxford Participation and Activities Questionnaire, and the Parkinson's Disease Questionnaires.

"The Oxford forms are some of the most respected and widely deployed outcome measures used by the pharmaceutical industry, healthcare providers, academia and medical device manufacturers," said Ali Hussam, Ph.D., CEO and Founder of OBERD. "We are honored to have been trusted by Oxford University Innovation to offer these validated instruments electronically to patients in the US."

OUI has been working with OBERD for several years, ensuring the web-based versions of their clinical outcome assessment measures, developed at University of Oxford and elsewhere, maintain the integrity of the originals. "We continue to be impressed by the OBERD system, and the rigorous and robust processes OBERD employs to implement the validated health outcome measures we manage," said David Churchman, Ph.D., Business Lead of the Clinical Outcomes team at OUI. "The Oxford Hip and Knee Scores have been approved by CMS for use in orthopaedics, and we're happy that OBERD can make these, and the other Oxford forms, widely available to their and our international user base." Dr. Churchman continued, "We've found great value from collaborating with the innovative team at OBERD on new developments in the area of Computerized Adaptive Testing (CAT) of our gold standard outcome measures. The results being that we can uniquely deliver reduced respondent burden versions of our measures, whilst retaining the all-important measurement performance of our outcome measures."

OBERD will be attending AAOS 2017 (booth #1809), and showcasing the Oxford forms. For more information or a demo, call 573.442.7101 or visit http://www.oberd.com.

About Oxford University Innovation
Oxford University Innovation helps staff and students to apply their expertise and research for wider social and economic benefit. Their role is to help University staff and students bring the benefits of their research and expertise to create impact in wider society. The Clinical Outcomes division manages the provision (licensing) and support of high quality clinical outcome assessment measures developed at the University of Oxford and elsewhere. For more details visit https://innovation.ox.ac.uk/clinical-outcomes/

About Universal Research Solutions (OBERD)
Universal Research Solutions (a.k.a. OBERD) owns, develops, implements and supports the OBERD system, that optimizes the data collection necessary to empower evidence-based medical practice, improve the quality and efficacy of care, and advance clinical decision-making and patient understanding. OBERD has been collecting patient outcome data for over 7 years, with over 6 million scored forms from over 1.8 million patients in its database.

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