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).
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
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.
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 below to find the information most relevant to them.