We want to know whether medical treatments are effective, so ask patients a set of questions before treatment and then the same questions after it to see how factors such as pain, quality of life, function have been affected. These are known as Patient Reported Outcome Measures (or PROMs).
Better understanding of treatment and its outcomes
PHIN has brought together data from thousands of private patients who have completed PROMs for six types of surgery:
- Knee replacement
- Hip replacement
- Cataract surgery
- Breast augmentation
- Liposuction
- Rhinoplasty (nose job)
We are publishing these results on the PROMs Explorer so that you can understand how people are before treatment – to help with questions you may have like ‘Are my symptoms normal for someone before cataract surgery?’ – and then to gain a sense of how that treatment might affect you.
Help with using the PROMs Explorer
We have produced a guide to help you understand how to use this Explorer.
Most users will want to go to the 'Outcomes-Responses' tab in the Explorer to find the information most relevant to them.
What do you think of the PROMs Explorer?
We are always looking for ways to improve the data we provide to patients, the public, and the healthcare sector.
If you have anything to say, good or bad, on this PROMs Explorer tool or the associated guide, please share your feedback.