Measurement Quality, Comparability, and Clinical Utility of PROMs, PREMs, and CROMs across Settings and Populations

Rehabilitation depends on measurement systems that capture functioning, disability, recovery, participation, patient experience, and quality of care across diverse populations and contexts. Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs), patient-reported experience measures (PREMs), and clinician-reported outcome measures (CROMs) are increasingly used to guide clinical decisions, monitor progress, compare services, and strengthen health-system learning. Yet, evidence remains fragmented across instruments, conditions, languages, care pathways, and stakeholder perspectives. While psychometric quality is essential, validity, reliability, responsiveness, interpretability, feasibility, and fairness may vary across cultures, literacy levels, digital modes, and clinical settings. This Research Topic addresses the need for robust, comparable, and clinically meaningful measurement approaches that integrate patient and clinician perspectives to advance evidence-informed rehabilitation practice.This Research Topic aims to deepen the understanding of how PROMs, PREMs, and CROMs can be selected, developed, validated, implemented, and interpreted in rehabilitation. It seeks to move beyond isolated validation by examining whether measures are psychometrically sound, comparable across contexts, feasible for routine use, and useful for clinical reasoning, shared decision-making, service evaluation, and policy. We particularly encourage studies on cross-cultural adaptation, differential item functioning, longitudinal invariance, responsiveness, minimally important change, patient–clinician agreement, and the integration of measurement data into digital rehabilitation pathways. By uniting perspectives from psychometrics, clinimetrics, implementation science, functioning science, and health systems, this Research Topic aims to build trustworthy measurement infrastructures that improve outcomes, patient experience, professional decision-making, and equity in rehabilitation services.All manuscript types accepted by Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences are welcome, including original research, methods papers, reviews, systematic reviews, study protocols, policy briefs, perspectives, and case reports. Contributions may address (but are not limited to):• Development, translation, cross-cultural adaptation, and validation of PROMs, PREMs, and CROMs;• Measurement properties in rehabilitation populations;• Comparability across countries, languages, settings, and population subgroups;• Concordance and discordance between patient- and clinician-reported measures;• Digital, remote, and hybrid administration approaches;• Interpretability, burden, feasibility, responsiveness, and clinical utility;• Minimal datasets, core outcome sets, and benchmarking;• Methodological advances such as item response theory, Rasch analysis, and measurement invariance.Studies from broader health sciences are welcome when their implications for rehabilitation measurement are explicit. Collectively, these studies will enhance understanding of how PROMs, PREMs, and CROMs can generate valid, comparable, and clinically meaningful information to inform person-centred care, clinical decision-making, service evaluation, and equitable rehabilitation outcomes. Topic editors: Adérito Ricardo Duarte Seixas, Redha Taiar, Danúbia Da Cunha De Sá Caputo Source: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/81317/measurement-quality-comparability-and-clinical-utility-of-proms-prems-and-croms-across-settings-and-populations