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Researchers develop patient-informed questionnaire tool for ventral hernia repair surgery patients – News-Medical.Net
Patient-reported outcomes have become a critical part of improving surgical care because of their ability to capture patient experiences, such as quality of life…
Patient-reported outcomes have become a critical part of improving surgical care because of their ability to capture patient experiences, such as quality of life and satisfaction, that can help inform treatment. However, for patients undergoing abdominal hernia repair — a common procedure performed on about 400,000 patients a year in the United States — a tool to effectively and practically measure those outcomes has not been widely accepted and implemented by clinics.
Now, researchers from the…
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