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Clin Colon Rectal Surg 2023; 36(04): 259-264
DOI: 10.1055/s-0043-1761594
Review Article

Patient-Reported Outcomes and Surgical Quality

Colby J. Hyland
1   Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
2   Patient-Reported Outcomes, Value, and Experience (PROVE) Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
,
Andrea L. Pusic
1   Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
2   Patient-Reported Outcomes, Value, and Experience (PROVE) Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
,
Jason B. Liu
2   Patient-Reported Outcomes, Value, and Experience (PROVE) Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
3   Section of Endocrine Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
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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 outcomes - patient-reported outcome measures - quality of life - surgical quality


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10 February 2023

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