Patient-reported outcomes (PROs), such as measures of physical and emotional function or health perceptions, are usually represented as continuous variables with change scores that clinicians, policy-makers and patients find very difficult to interpret. The purpose of this session is to present different strategies that are available to render these results more easily interpretable to the audiences of Cochrane reviews. Presenters will discuss a spectrum of approaches to interpreting PRO outcome data, and they will note the appeal of strategies that result in the proportion of patients who achieve important benefit from an intervention.