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Expanded EUREQUO registry will include patient-reported outcome data
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Ljubljana, SLOVENIA — The EUREQUO cataract and refractive surgery database will be expanded this year to include a patient-recorded outcome module.
Two questionnaires, the Catquest-9SF for cataract surgery and the Quality of Life Impact for refractive surgery, will be included, with translation into 11 different languages, Mats Lundström, MD, PhD, said at the winter meeting of the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons.
The module will contain a calculation algorithm for patient-reported data. Users of EUREQUO will be able to analyze both clinical outcomes and patient-reported outcomes.
Mats Lundström
“Patient-reported outcomes have been reported to modify indications for surgery. These questionnaires will enable us to evaluate indications for surgery from the patient’s perspective,” Lundström said.
He also said that “there will be things to learn when clinical and patient-reported outcomes disagree.”
The EUREQUO project was implemented in 2008 by the ESCRS and eleven national societies with the purpose of creating a European registry for improving quality of cataract and refractive surgery. EUREQUO has been co-financed by the European Union, under the Executive Agency for Health and Consumers, and the ESCRS.
Disclosure: Lundström has no relevant financial disclosures.