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Electronic administration of PROs beneficial to surgeons, patients
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Although electronic administration of patient reported outcomes may decrease the amount of time required for completion in the office setting, it is unclear if patient compliance improves with use of an electronic system, according to new data.
Eric C. Makhni, MD, MBA, and colleagues prospectively enrolled 143 patients undergoing arthroscopic shoulder surgery from January 1, 2014, to December 31, 2014, into an electronic data collection system with retrospective review of compliance data. Researchers assigned patients an order set of patient reported outcomes (PROs) through an electronic reporting system. Patients were to complete the order sets preoperatively and at 6 months and 12 months postoperatively, and documented compliance rates of form completion.
Results showed a 76% compliance form completion preoperatively, which decreased to 57% at 6 months and 45% at 12 months postoperatively. However, researchers found compliance improved by approximately 20% at each time point among surgeons who had research assistants. Most of the patients who completed forms did so at home or elsewhere prior to returning to the office for the clinic visit, according to the results.
“Despite transition to electronic-based patient reported outcome collection, these are still challenges in capturing scores from postoperative patients,” Makhni told Healio.com/Orthopedics. “As a field, we must continue to innovate in order to improve outcome collection rates for our patients.” – by Casey Tingle
Disclosures: Makhni reports no relevant financial disclosures. Please see the full study for a list of all other authors’ relevant financial disclosures.
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