Symposium on Perioperative Medicine

New outcome measures in perioperative care

Abstract

Improvements in outcome measurement are needed to produce quality improvement in perioperative care. However, problems with the collection and use of outcome data persist in research and clinical practice. This is being addressed by several national programmes and initiatives to standardize and integrate outcome measurement.

The use of different outcome measures is changing and there has been a transition towards patient-focused measures. Traditional measures of quality in perioperative care include mortality, morbidity and resource utilization measures. Patient-focused measures include patient-reported outcome measures and measures of patient experience. Each of these has advantages and disadvantages in different situations.

The routine collection, analysis and dissemination of data relating to perioperative outcome is beneficial to patients, clinicians, hospitals, commissioners, regulators and researchers.

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2 November 2017Volume 78Issue 11

ISSN (print): 1750-8460
ISSN (online): 1759-7390

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Published online 7 November 2017

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