PP53. PROMS IN NEUROSURGERY: WHERE ARE WE NOW?

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AbstractINTRODUCTION: Patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) play important role in addressing health related quality of life of patients and their outcome satisfaction. Neurosurgery is lagging behind in disease specific PROMs and there is an urgent and emerging need for disease specific PROMs for neurosurgery especially neuro-oncology to address specific quality of life issues, outcome satisfaction and patient safety. METHODS: A search in MEDLINE, PUBMED, EMBASE and WEB of Science databases was done for articles related to neurosurgery PROMs and 72 relevant articles were identified among 4473 articles. Twenty nine different PROMs were analysed from the relevant articles in terms of factions tested, advantages, disadvantages, limitations and scope in neurosurgery. RESULTS: The extensive search resulted in the data suggesting that generic PROMs are still in use in neurosurgery and multiple disadvantages has been identified giving rise to a strong scope and need of disease specific neurosurgical PROMs. CONCLUSION: Currents generic PROMs do not address the disease specific outcome issues of neurosurgery and thus there is a definite need of disease specific PROMs especially neuro-oncology so that the patient satisfaction and safety as well as quality of life issues can be addressed systematically. KEYWORDS: PROMs, Neurosurgery, brain tumours