Patient-Reported Outcomes Measures in Abdominal Cancer Surgery and Student-Led Surgical Research

Challenge for the future: assessing the quality of abdominal surgery using composite quality measures

“…Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) have gained increasing interest among researchers as a means to evaluate the quality of abdominal surgery. Although based on subjective experience, PROMs are accurately developed and rigorously validated, making them a reliable tool for assessing outcomes that are often underestimated by healthcare providers, such as pain and psychological distress 3 .…”