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Provisional Monthly Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) in England - April 2012 to September 2012

Official statistics
Publication Date:
Geographic Coverage:
England
Geographical Granularity:
Country, Strategic Health Authorities, Hospital Trusts, Primary Care Trusts, Independent Sector Health Care Providers, Clinical Commissioning Groups, NHS Trusts, Primary Care Organisations, County, Care Trusts, Hospital and Community Health Services
Date Range:
01 Apr 2012 to 30 Sep 2012

Summary

 

This provisional publication of PROMs data includes eligible HES episodes with an episode start date between 1 April 2012 and 30 September 2012 and pre-operative questionnaires with a completion date between 1 April 2012 and 30 September 2012. Where a patient did not record the date that they completed the pre-operative questionnaire, the pre-operative questionnaire scan date is used. Any post-operative questionnaires that are linked to an eligible pre-operative questionnaire and have been sent out to patients, returned and scanned prior to processing (middle of January 2013) are included for analysis.

Note: Please be aware that provider level score data for 2012-13 was updated on 15/02/2013. This relates to data in the following tables: 'Provisional provider tables 2012-13 (XLSX)', 'Provisional score comparison 2012-13 (XLSX)' and 'Provisional provider / commissioner data 2012-13 (CSV)'. The update was necessary as a number of providers were omitted from the original tables, although the data for the providers present in the original tables was correct and no other figures were impacted. Individuals requiring further information should contact [email protected]

 

Highlights

For the coverage period 1 April 2012 to 30 September 2012:

Participation and Coverage

  • There were 118,368 PROMs-eligible procedures carried out in hospitals1; 85,965 pre-operative questionnaires returned so far, a headline participation rate of 72.6 per cent (69.9 per cent for 2010-11).
  • For the 85,965 pre-operative questionnaires returned, 31,687 post-operative questionnaires were sent out2, of which 10,534 have been returned so far - a return rate of 33.2 per cent 3 (81.0 per cent for 2010-11).

Unadjusted Scores

Comparing pre- and post-operative 'EQ-5D Index' scores (a combination of five key criteria concerning patients' self-reported general health), an increase in general health was recorded for:

  • 51.4 per cent of groin hernia respondents (50.5 per cent for 2010-11)
  • 89.8 per cent of hip replacement respondents (86.7 per cent for 2010-11)
  • 79.4 per cent of knee replacement respondents (77.9 per cent for 2010-11)
  • 51.7 per cent of varicose vein respondents (51.6 per cent for 2010-11)

Comparing pre- and post-operative 'EQ-VAS' values (the current state of the patient's self-reported general health), an increase in general health was recorded for:

  • 38.9 per cent of groin hernia respondents (39.1 per cent for 2010-11)
  • 65.2 per cent of hip replacement respondents (61.4 per cent for 2010-11)
  • 55.0 per cent of knee replacement respondents (50.8 per cent for 2010-11)
  • 41.6 per cent of varicose vein respondents (39.8 per cent for 2010-11)

Comparing pre-post operative responses to condition-specific question, improvements in patients' conditions were recorded for:

  • [There is no condition-specific scoring for groin hernia patients.]
  • 96.3 per cent of hip replacement respondents (95.8 per cent for 2010-11) ['Oxford Hip Score']
  • 92.4 per cent of knee replacement respondents (91.4 per cent for 2010-11) ['Oxford Knee Score']
  • 83.4 per cent of varicose vein respondents (82.5 per cent for 2010-11) ['Aberdeen Varicose Vein Questionnaire']

Methodology Change

Figures produced for this and subsequent publications may differ slightly from previous figures in part because of a change in methodology. Please see the Methodology Change Note for more details.

 

Footnotes

  1. An 'eligible procedure' is counted for each episode in HES in the period in question which has been clinically coded with relevant hip, knee, varicose vein or groin hernia OPCS procedure codes which make it suitable for inclusion into PROMs. Note that some patients may have undergone more than one PROMs procedure in a single eligible episode, hence there will be more procedures than episodes: this is the case for 29 of the 118,368 procedures.
  2. Not every pre-operative questionnaire will have a post-operative questionnaire sent out. This may be for a number of reasons including the cancellation of an operation or the death of the patient.
  3. This will be an underestimate of the true rate due to the time delay in returning post-operative questionnaires.

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