PROs Toolkits

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The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) Quality Improvement Committee has created a series of toolkits for vascular surgeons for patient-reported outcomes, or PROs. A PRO is any report of the status of a patient’s (or person’s) health condition, health behavior, or experience with healthcare that comes directly from the patient, without interpretation of the patient’s response by a clinician or anyone else.

There are several types of PROs, satisfaction scores and health-related quality of life (HRQOL). HRQOL is most commonly used because it is less subjective. HRQOL assesses how a disease and its treatment affect the physical, psychological and/or social aspects of life. 

The domains of quality of life used to measure PROs are:

• Symptoms 
• Pain
• Psychological symptoms (i.e. anxiety, depression)
• Effect of social activities
• Functional status

Toolkits

• PROs Toolkit: Basics of Survey Administration and Data Collection
  •  Resources regarding PROs-related survey administration and data collection.
• PROs Toolkit: Inventory of Existing PROs
  • Resources regarding the inventory of existing PROs.
• PROs Toolkit: Psychometric Properties
  • Resources regarding the psychometric properties of PROs.

Reference Library 

• Current status of patient-reported outcome measures in vascular surgery
• Supplemental Materials

If you have questions, please email svsquality@vascularsociety.org.