What is POMES?
POMES is an acronym for practice outcomes monitoring and evaluation system which is a process for monitoring the outcomes in a small population of patients (usually less than 50) treated with an unconventional intervention as it ordinarily is administered, without altering the regimen’s delivery or outcome. The goal of a POMES project is to determine whether a phenomena observed in a retrospective case review is reproducible in a larger population. Results from a POMES project may be used to justify an NCI-initiated clinical trial.
