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.