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Review
. 2023 Feb 10;36(4):259-264.
doi: 10.1055/s-0043-1761594. eCollection 2023 Jul.

Patient-Reported Outcomes and Surgical Quality

Colby J Hyland  1   2 , Andrea L Pusic  1   2 , Jason B Liu  2   3
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Review

Patient-Reported Outcomes and Surgical Quality

Colby J Hyland et al. Clin Colon Rectal Surg. .

Abstract

Delivering high-quality surgical care requires knowing how best to define and measure quality in surgery. Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) enable surgeons, health care systems, and payers to understand meaningful health outcomes from the patient's perspective and can be measured using patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs). As a result, there is much interest in using PROMs in routine surgical care, to guide quality improvement and to inform reimbursement pay structures. This chapter defines PROs and PROMs, differentiates PROMs from other quality measures such as patient-reported experience measures, describes PROMs in the context of routine clinical care, and provides an overview of interpreting PROM data. This chapter also describes how PROMs may be applied to quality improvement and value-based reimbursement in surgery.

Keywords: patient-reported outcome measures; patient-reported outcomes; quality of life; surgical quality.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of Interest C.J.H. and J.B.L. have no financial disclosures. A.L.P. receives funding for work unrelated to this one. A.L.P. is a codeveloper of the QPROMS which are owned by the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and receives a portion of licensing fees (royalty payments) when the QPROMS are used in industry-sponsored clinical trials.

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Applications of PROMs in surgical care. PROMs, patient-reported outcome measures; PRO-PMs, patient-reported outcome-based performance measures; QI, quality improvement.
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