Digital Colorectal PROMs

• Research type

  Research Study

• Full title

  Digital Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) in Colorectal Services. Establishing tools for continuous improvement and service transformation.

• IRAS ID

  250134

• Contact name

  Paris Tekkis

• Contact email

  p.tekkis@imperial.ac.uk

• Sponsor organisation

  Imperial College London

• Duration of Study in the UK

  2 years, 0 months, 1 days

• Research summary

  
  Our colorectal department provides acute, chronic and day case care for approximately 13,500 patients per year. Currently, there is no streamlined pathway through which our service can collect Patient Reported Outcomes and Experience Measures (PROMs and PREMs) and this relates directly to the following significant limitations:

  - PROM and PREM data are currently collected through inefficient paper-based processes
  - There is a poor understanding of patient outcomes, expectations, experience and views of clincial service
  - Clinical professonional-led collection methods limit patient participation and empowerment
  - Our limited ability to detect patient deterioration efficienctly following discharge leads to preventable re-referrals and readmissions

  A separate, but very related, set of problems relates to how our service interfaces with often inefficient primary care decision making and use of specialist services in the community. This means incorrect referrals and/or preventable readmissions.

  We aim to use Digital Health.London Accelerator company MyClinicalOutcomes (MCO) to design and deliver a novel colorectal disorder digital PROMs and PREMs collection solution, able to address both sets of problems outlined.
  Our solution aims to use this data to not only inform our continuous improvement but also to support the design of a novel GP-facing tool aiding referral decision making in the community.

  It is our aspiration that this work will provide a useful base for wider digital PROM/PREM collection and create quality improvement learnings that could be transferred to other clinical departments.

• REC name

  London - Brent Research Ethics Committee

• REC reference

  20/LO/0408

• Date of REC Opinion

  9 Nov 2020

• REC opinion

  Further Information Favourable Opinion