Electronic capture of patient-reported and clinician-reported outcome measures in an elective orthopaedic setting: a retrospective cohort analysis

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Why is it important?

Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) are being increasingly used in modern healthcare to assess the quality of services provided. They have become an important measure of patient health status. Assessing and achieving outcomes important to patients is associated with higher rates of patient satisfaction and helps patients feel health professionals are engaged with their concerns. There is a national PROMS project which captures these scores using paper and pen. Our study is the first large scale study demonstrating electronic capture of these scores before and after surgery using iPads or SmartPhones and is on a very large scale in a busy hospital setting.

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