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Use of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) by orthopedic surgeons in Saudi Arabia

BACKGROUND: There is increasing literature on the usefulness of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs), but far fewer studies to determine their use by orthopedic surgeons and the barriers they face in applying PROMs in their daily clinical activity. METHODS: Cross-sectional study using a questio...

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Autores principales: Alshehri, Fayez, Alarabi, Abdulaziz, Alharthi, Mohammed, Alanazi, Thamer, Alohali, Ahmed, Alsaleem, Mohammad
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7731455/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33302994
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13018-020-02135-1
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author Alshehri, Fayez
Alarabi, Abdulaziz
Alharthi, Mohammed
Alanazi, Thamer
Alohali, Ahmed
Alsaleem, Mohammad
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Alarabi, Abdulaziz
Alharthi, Mohammed
Alanazi, Thamer
Alohali, Ahmed
Alsaleem, Mohammad
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description BACKGROUND: There is increasing literature on the usefulness of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs), but far fewer studies to determine their use by orthopedic surgeons and the barriers they face in applying PROMs in their daily clinical activity. METHODS: Cross-sectional study using a questionnaire that was distributed in both soft and hard copy formats to a sample of 262 orthopedic surgeons. Participants included orthopedic surgeons who are employed by the Ministry of Health (MOH) in Riyadh and the Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia. The questionnaire was distributed through on-site visitations to orthopedic departments in MOH hospitals as well as through online correspondence by email, WhatsApp, and social media. RESULTS: The study sample included 262 orthopedic surgeons (13.7% females and 86.3% males). Surgeons aged < 34, 35–44, and 45–54 years old represented 28.66%, 38.9%, and 20.2% of the study sample, respectively. The majority of the included surgeons did not use PROMs (69.1%), and some (17.2%) used it for research purposes. Only 5% used it regularly in daily clinical work. CONCLUSION: The clinical use of PROMs among orthopedic surgeons was negligible, even though an overwhelming majority were interested in using PROMs. The reasons provided included a lack of knowledge on how to use PROMs and the perception that it is too time-consuming to add to regular clinical routine. There should be more efforts towards training surgeons on how to use PROMs, whereas increasing compatibility with existing software tools used by MOH hospitals may help offset time-related reservations.
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spelling pubmed-77314552020-12-11 Use of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) by orthopedic surgeons in Saudi Arabia Alshehri, Fayez Alarabi, Abdulaziz Alharthi, Mohammed Alanazi, Thamer Alohali, Ahmed Alsaleem, Mohammad J Orthop Surg Res Research Article BACKGROUND: There is increasing literature on the usefulness of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs), but far fewer studies to determine their use by orthopedic surgeons and the barriers they face in applying PROMs in their daily clinical activity. METHODS: Cross-sectional study using a questionnaire that was distributed in both soft and hard copy formats to a sample of 262 orthopedic surgeons. Participants included orthopedic surgeons who are employed by the Ministry of Health (MOH) in Riyadh and the Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia. The questionnaire was distributed through on-site visitations to orthopedic departments in MOH hospitals as well as through online correspondence by email, WhatsApp, and social media. RESULTS: The study sample included 262 orthopedic surgeons (13.7% females and 86.3% males). Surgeons aged < 34, 35–44, and 45–54 years old represented 28.66%, 38.9%, and 20.2% of the study sample, respectively. The majority of the included surgeons did not use PROMs (69.1%), and some (17.2%) used it for research purposes. Only 5% used it regularly in daily clinical work. CONCLUSION: The clinical use of PROMs among orthopedic surgeons was negligible, even though an overwhelming majority were interested in using PROMs. The reasons provided included a lack of knowledge on how to use PROMs and the perception that it is too time-consuming to add to regular clinical routine. There should be more efforts towards training surgeons on how to use PROMs, whereas increasing compatibility with existing software tools used by MOH hospitals may help offset time-related reservations. BioMed Central 2020-12-10 /pmc/articles/PMC7731455/ /pubmed/33302994 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13018-020-02135-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Alharthi, Mohammed
Alanazi, Thamer
Alohali, Ahmed
Alsaleem, Mohammad
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title Use of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) by orthopedic surgeons in Saudi Arabia
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7731455/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33302994
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13018-020-02135-1
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