Understanding Patient Reported Outcome Measures using eye tracking

• Research type

  Research Study

• Full title

  Objective Understanding of Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) in Surgery using Eye Tracking Technology ( PROMET)

• IRAS ID

  172150

• Contact name

  Christine Buicke

• Contact email

  c.buicke@imperial.ac.uk

• Sponsor organisation

  Imperial College London

• Duration of Study in the UK

  1 years, 0 months, 1 days

• Research summary

  As doctors we realise that the patients satisfaction with a surgical procedure does not always correlate with clinical outcomes that we have conventionally felt important. There is ever increasing importance placed on the patients reported outcome measures (PROMs) in research methodology. Commonly this information is collected in the form of a survey.
  Our aim in this study is to try and correlate information provided by the patient in the survey with data gained by tracking the patients visual gaze during their time in hospital. We hope that it will give us a greater understanding of the factors that influence a patients perception and provide and objective measure of quality in clinical service delivery.
  This will involve the patient wearing a clear pair of glasses during their time in hospital, which records his or her eye movements. These glasses are completely clear, will not affect their eyesight and can be worn with a prescription lens. The glasses also record a video of the patients time in hospital which is used to relate some of the eye movement data. The recording will be fully anonymised, so that no one (including the research team) will be able to determine identity from the recording once analysed in accordance with guidelines

• REC name

  Yorkshire & The Humber - Leeds West Research Ethics Committee

• REC reference

  15/YH/0324

• Date of REC Opinion

  13 Jul 2015

• REC opinion

  Unfavourable Opinion