PHIN publishes two PROMS for cataract surgery, Cat-PROM5 and Catquest-9SF. Both tools have been well validated, and hospitals can use either when submitting data to PHIN.
For more information regarding these tools, please visit Cat-PROM5 and Catquest-9SF.
Why should I be interested in Cataract PROMs information?
You may be considering cataract surgery, but not sure how much it will improve your daily activities. Can you read books or newspapers again? Will your vision improve after surgery? These are the kinds of questions that information about PROMs can help you answer.
The Cataract PROM tools are questionnaires specifically designed to capture how patients feel and function before and after surgery. Filled out by you, the patient, they provide a unique perspective on the impact of surgery on your everyday life. Unlike doctor examinations, PROMs focus on what matters most to you: your ability to do the things you want to do.
PROMs information empowers you to make a decision. By understanding how surgery can impact your specific needs and goals, you can make informed decisions about your treatment plan. Whether you are looking for a general sense of improvement or want to know if you will be able to tackle that specific activity you have been missing, PROMs information can support this.
How does PHIN calculate health gain for Cataracts PROMs?
Cat-PROM5 and Catquest-9SF use different questionnaires to assess vision for patients undergoing cataract surgery.
Catquest-9SF is a 9-question PROM. The first two questions are broad questions about a patient’s eyesight and the cataract’s impact on their overall daily activities, questions 3 to 9 relate to specific daily activities. The questions are asked once before surgery and, again, approximately 2 months after.
Cat-PROM5 is a 5-question PROM. The first question relates to the bad eye only. Questions 2 to 5 relate to general eyesight. The questions are asked once before surgery and again, approximately 3 months after.
All questions must be answered for both PROM tool to be valid. Both tools use a conversion table to create a Rasch score.
The score for the pre- and post- operative questions will be calculated and the comparisons made as follows:
- If the post-operative score is less than the pre-operative score = health status has improved
- If the post-operative score is equal to the pre-operative score = health status has not changed
- If the post-operative score is greater than the pre-operative score = health status has worsened
These PROM tools are only validated for patients over the age of 18 on admission.
How does PHIN publish Cataract PROMs information?
Our website allows people to search for hospitals who undertake Cataract Surgery close to where the patient lives.
After entering a location and operation (cataract surgery), the website will present the visitor with a list of consultants who perform the operation sorted by those closest to the chosen location.
The visitor can then switch to showing hospitals.
You can access more information about a specific hospital by clicking the “View” button and scroll to ‘Your Procedure’:
- The count of Admissions for the selected operation. If the hospital also treated NHS patients, the website will show these numbers if the data is also available.
- Healthcare outcomes reported by patients - The total number of PROMs responses that have been used to calculate the health gain.
- Healthcare outcomes reported by patients - The percentage of patients who reported again improved, no change or worsened outcome.
We currently only publicly report information related to Cataract PROMs at a hospital level on the website and datasheets.
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