CPP Clinical Outcome Measurement of Fracture Treatment
Research type
Research Study
Full title
CPP Clinical Outcome Measurement of Fracture Treatment: 1. Defining the Recovery Trajectory using PROMIS® to Optimize Decision-making and Outcomes following Extremity Fractures:An Observational Study 2. Linking of PROMIS® Measures to Legacy Measures in an Orthopaedic Patient Population
IRAS ID
265335
Contact name
Stephen Gwilym
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
AO Documentation And Publishing Foundation Clinical Investigation and Documentation (AOCID)
Duration of Study in the UK
4 years, 2 months, 31 days
Research summary
We know that recovery after an injury is affected by many factors, not just how severe the injury is. These factors can include a person's mental health and their home and work environment.
A fracture is a break in a bone. There are many common fractures such as the shoulder, wrist, hip, shin and ankle. More work is needed to investigate how different factors affect recovery and quality of life following these common fractures.
There are a number of different patient reported outcome (PRO) questionnaires that are being used to measure the recovery of a person who has had a fracture. Unfortunately, these questionnaires only have limited information about a patient's mental health and social history. Currently, there is not one specific questionnaire that is used to compare the recovery of patients with a fracture, across different clinical settings.
PROMIS (Patient-Reported Outcome Measurement Information System) was designed to create a precise, efficient and user-friendly way of capturing patient reported outcomes, and specifically includes mental health and social factors.
We would like to ask patients who have had a fracture to complete these questionnaires at different time points following their injury.
The aims of this study are to find out what factors affect recovery; if any of these factors can predict how a person recovers and if we can determine where a patient's normal route of recovery should be at different time points, following a fracture of an arm or leg. This will help us to develop targeted treatment to help people in their recovery.
The research team will also determine if the current PRO questionnaires being used can be linked to PROMIS, to enable us to use one specific questionnaire to compare patient recovery across different clinical settings and across research studies.
REC name
East of England - Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
20/EE/0051
Date of REC Opinion
7 May 2020
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion