Provisional Quarterly Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) in England - April 2016 to December 2016

For the coverage period 1 April 2016 to 31 December 2016.

Participation and Coverage

• There have been 201,271 PROMs-eligible procedures carried out in hospitals¹ and 150,253 pre-operative questionnaires returned so far, a headline participation rate of 74.7 per cent (75.6 per cent for 2014-15).
• For the 150,253 pre-operative questionnaires returned, 93,987 post-operative questionnaires were sent out², of which 50,236 have been returned so far - a return rate of 53.4 per cent³ (73.0 per cent for 2014-15).

National 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:

• 50.6 per cent of groin hernia respondents (49.9 per cent for 2014-15)
• 89.4 per cent of hip replacement respondents (88.2 per cent for 2014-15)
• 81.6 per cent of knee replacement respondents (80.5 per cent for 2014-15)
• 51.9 per cent of varicose vein respondents (51.9 per cent for 2014-15)

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:

• 39.3 per cent of groin hernia respondents (37.9 per cent for 2014-15)
• 66.9 per cent of hip replacement respondents (65.1 per cent for 2014-15)
• 57.8 per cent of knee replacement respondents (55.3 per cent for 2014-15)
• 40.3 per cent of varicose vein respondents (39.0 per cent for 2014-15)

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

• [There is no condition-specific scoring for groin hernia patients.]
• 96.9 per cent of hip replacement respondents (96.4 per cent for 2014-15) ['Oxford Hip Score']
• 93.8 per cent of knee replacement respondents (93.2 per cent for 2014-15) ['Oxford Knee Score']
• 81.8 per cent of varicose vein respondents (82.3 per cent for 2014-15) ['Aberdeen Varicose Vein Questionnaire']

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 in PROMs. 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 46 of the 201,271 procedures.
2. Not every pre-operative questionnaire will have a post-operative questionnaire sent out, for various 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.