ABSTRACT
Understanding the patient perspective of any medical condition allows us to treat our patients more effectively, compassionately, and completely. Lower urinary tract dysfunction and genital prolapse can be described by objective investigations and clinical examination. Treatment outcomes can be assessed in a similar manner. Ignoring the patient perspective can, however, lead to inappropriate conclusions regarding treatment desire, appropriate treatments to select, and treatment efficacy. How conditions affect patients' lives and how they hope to benefit from interaction with the medical world can only be answered by the patients themselves. This chapter hopes to discuss our current understanding of patient-reported outcomes (PRO) assessment.
