PROM implementation for elective surgery patients in Australia: national implementation of the AusPROM Recommendations” (Phase III)

Not Applicable

Completed

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

• Registration Number: ACTRN12621000969864
• 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: 2021-07-26
• Study Completion: 2021-12-31
• Last Update Posted: 5 February 2024

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 4176

Inclusion Criteria

PATIENTS (SURVEYS)
• Admission one of the 29 Healthscope hospitals in Australia
• Age 18+
• Planned elective surgery
• Provided Healthscope with a valid email address and / or mobile phone number
• Adequate English (captured as Interpreter = No” on the admission paperwork)
• Consent to participation

PATIENT / CONSUMER (FOCUS GROUPS)
• Age 18+
• Currently employed or volunteering as a consumer representative at Healthscope and providing consumer representative duties at one of the 29 hospital sites
• 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
• Death (no further surveys will be sent)
• Not meeting the inclusion criteria
• Patients with a hip / knee / shoulder replacement

#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 PROM study

PATIENT (FOCUS GROUPS)
• Not meeting the inclusion criteria

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified