Tag: PATIENT REPORTED OUTCOMES
Study assesses reliability of PROM score change in spine surgery research
Changes in patient-reported outcome measure (PROM) scores must be considerable in order to distinguish a true change from random error in degenerative lumbar spine...
Patient factors explain variation in function after lumbar surgery
Patient-reported functional outcomes vary considerably after lumbar spinal fusion surgery, a study conducted by David Flum (University of Washington Surgical Outcomes Research Center; Washington;...
Refining and defining outcome measures in spine surgery
Philip Sell (Leicester and Nottingham, UK) tells Spinal News International that as the field of spine surgery evolves from using generic to more specific...
Many surgeons do not use patient-reported outcome measures in spine care
Almost one third of spine surgeons do not routinely use patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs). This was the result presented by Asdrubal Falavigna (Department...