PROM implementation for elective surgery patients in Australia, applying the AusPROM Recommendations”

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Patients following elective surgery in the private healthcare setting; Surgery - Other surgery

• Registration Number: ACTRN12621000298819
• Lead Sponsor: Healthscope

Brief Summary

The AusPROM recommendations provide practical guidance in how to implement patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) across the hospital setting. Developing AusPROM recommendations via a Delphi process, enabled the recommendations to be co-designed with health care staff and patients.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2021-03-18
• Study Completion: 2022-01-31
• Last Update Posted: 5 February 2024

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 5985

Inclusion Criteria

PATIENTS (SURVEYS)
•Admission one of the four pilot Healthscope hospitals in Australia
•Age 18+
•Planned elective surgery
•Provided Healthscope with a valid email address and / or mobile pone number
•Adequate English (captured as Interpreter = No” on the admission paperwork)
•Consent to participation

STAFF (FOCUS GROUPS)
•Age 18+
•Currently employed at Healthscope and working on one of the four pilot hospitals
•AHPRA registered nurse or doctor
•Consent to participation

Exclusion Criteria

PATIENTS (SURVEYS)
• Ticking the opt out” box on the hospital admission paperwork for participation in patient surveys#
• Pregnant women being admitted for obstetric procedures
• Patients with a hip / knee / shoulder replacement
• Death (no further surveys will be sent)
• Not meeting the inclusion criteria

#On admission to Healthscope, patients are asked on their admission paperwork to Please tick if you do not wish to receive a patient satisfaction survey. This opt out tick box is consistently used across Healthscope as an initial screen for inviting patients (or not) to participate in patient surveys, and this will be applied to this PROMs-ESP study

STAFF (FOCUS GROUPS)
• Not meeting the inclusion criteria

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
To report the AusPROM implementation recommendations based on the barriers and enablers for national ePROM implementation<br>[ Phase I of the AusPROM recommendations has 12 months as the primary timepoint. <br><br>Staff data will be collected at about the 2.5 month, 6.5 month and 10.5 month time points of the 12 months of data collection. Member checking for the focus groups may require staff to verify focus group transcripts hence we are allowing up to 12 months for staff data collection. Specifically:<br><br>Staff: Focus group 1 (1 hour duration via video conference); approximately 2.5 months from the start of data collection<br><br>Staff : Focus group 2 (1 hour duration via video conference); approximately 6.5 months from the start of data collection<br><br>Staff : Focus group 3 (1 hour duration via video conference); approximately 10.5 months from the start of data collection<br>]