Measuring the Patient’s View of the Queue: Challenges and Strategies for Collecting Patient Reported Outcomes Data for Waitlisted Surgical Patients
Vancouver Coastal Health, in collaboration with the University of British Columbia, is collecting Patient Reported Outcomes (PROs) to quantify the effects of waiting for surgical care. General and condition-specific health status, pain, and depression are being measured at three points during the patient’s episode of care: 1) upon registration to a surgical wait list, 2) prior to surgery, and 3) post-recovery. These repeated measurements allow us to evaluate the impact of wait time on the patient’s health while they wait for surgery and after treatment. Read more