Patient Reported Outcomes in Breast Reconstruction - easy to collect and potentially practice changing
Association of Breast Surgery ePoster Library. Yennunandan A. 05/15/17; 166284; P068
Abhi Yennunandan
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Introduction: Breast Reconstruction continues to develop in popularity and complexity. Routine quantitative data collection is well established. Patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) however, are the only way of subjectively exploring the patient experience of information provision and decision making as per the 2002 NICE guidance. The aim of this study was to determine compliance with PROMs looking for emerging themes to guide our reconstructive counselling .
Method: All patients undergoing breast reconstruction were sent a validated PROM questionnaire. Questionnaires were administered by a clinic based Health Care Assistant.
Results: Data were analysed for 114 (78% return rate) patients at 3 months postoperatively since April 2013. 95% of patients said they received the right amount of information about reconstruction before their surgery (NMBRA rate 90%). Table 1 outlines a more detailed breakdown pulling out some of the components of that information provision
Conclusions: PROM are easy to administer and have good patient engagement. Despite overall high scores for information provision, delving a bit deeper allows us to refine our patient information and guide our reconstruction nurse. We continue to adjust our counselling process according to these themes.
Method: All patients undergoing breast reconstruction were sent a validated PROM questionnaire. Questionnaires were administered by a clinic based Health Care Assistant.
Results: Data were analysed for 114 (78% return rate) patients at 3 months postoperatively since April 2013. 95% of patients said they received the right amount of information about reconstruction before their surgery (NMBRA rate 90%). Table 1 outlines a more detailed breakdown pulling out some of the components of that information provision
Conclusions: PROM are easy to administer and have good patient engagement. Despite overall high scores for information provision, delving a bit deeper allows us to refine our patient information and guide our reconstruction nurse. We continue to adjust our counselling process according to these themes.
Introduction: Breast Reconstruction continues to develop in popularity and complexity. Routine quantitative data collection is well established. Patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) however, are the only way of subjectively exploring the patient experience of information provision and decision making as per the 2002 NICE guidance. The aim of this study was to determine compliance with PROMs looking for emerging themes to guide our reconstructive counselling .
Method: All patients undergoing breast reconstruction were sent a validated PROM questionnaire. Questionnaires were administered by a clinic based Health Care Assistant.
Results: Data were analysed for 114 (78% return rate) patients at 3 months postoperatively since April 2013. 95% of patients said they received the right amount of information about reconstruction before their surgery (NMBRA rate 90%). Table 1 outlines a more detailed breakdown pulling out some of the components of that information provision
Conclusions: PROM are easy to administer and have good patient engagement. Despite overall high scores for information provision, delving a bit deeper allows us to refine our patient information and guide our reconstruction nurse. We continue to adjust our counselling process according to these themes.
Method: All patients undergoing breast reconstruction were sent a validated PROM questionnaire. Questionnaires were administered by a clinic based Health Care Assistant.
Results: Data were analysed for 114 (78% return rate) patients at 3 months postoperatively since April 2013. 95% of patients said they received the right amount of information about reconstruction before their surgery (NMBRA rate 90%). Table 1 outlines a more detailed breakdown pulling out some of the components of that information provision
Conclusions: PROM are easy to administer and have good patient engagement. Despite overall high scores for information provision, delving a bit deeper allows us to refine our patient information and guide our reconstruction nurse. We continue to adjust our counselling process according to these themes.
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