Main description:

This book provides a guide to the assessment of quality of life and patient reported outcomes measures in general surgery. The rapidly emerging field helps contextualise patients and helps the decision-making process within health economics, bedside medicine, public health, and health policy. All subspecialties of general surgery are covered, as well as the core principles of quality of life.

The book aims to demonstrate how clinicians and policymakers can easily get access to a single source of patient reported outcomes measures and quality of life evidence to help them make the best-informed decisions in the field of general surgery.

This book is relevant to healthcare managers, doctors, allied health professionals, healthcare scientists, consultants, healthcare economists, and medical statisticians working in healthcare.

Contents:

Quality of Life Theory
Statistical Methods for PROMS and QoL
Research Methods for PROMS and QoL
Methodology for Systematic Reviews on Measurement Properties of Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMS)
Quality of life as endpoint in surgical randomised controlled trials
The role of Patient Reported Outcomes Measures (PROMS) and Health-related Quality-of-Life (HRQoL) in Economic Analysis
Quality of Life following Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery
Quality of life after upper GI Surgery
Patient-reported quality of life after pancreatic and liver surgery
Quality of Life in Head & Neck Surgical Oncology and Thyroid Surgery
Quality of Life and Patient Reported Outcomes in Breast Cancer
Quality of Life After Colorectal Surgery
Quality of life after lung cancer surgery
Health-Related Quality of Life and Patient Reported Outcome Measures following Transplantation Surgery