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.
قائمة المحتويات
Quality of Life Theory.- Statistical Methods for PROMS and Qo L.- Research Methods for PROMS and Qo L.- 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 (HRQo L) 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.
عن المؤلف
Professor Thanos Athanasiou is a Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon at Hammersmith and St Mary’s Hospitals and a Professor of Cardiovascular Sciences & Cardiac Surgery in the Division of Surgery at Imperial College London. He specializes in Complex Aortic Surgery, Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG), Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery and Robotic Assisted Cardiothoracic Surgery. His institutional responsibility is to lead academic cardiac surgery.
Professor the Lord Darzi is currently head of the Institute of Global Health Innovation, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London. He holds the Paul Hamlyn Chair of Surgery at Imperial College London and the Institute of Cancer Research. He is also an honorary consultant surgeon at St Mary’s Hospital, and the Royal Marsden Hospitals. Between 2007-2009 he held the post of Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Lords) at the Department of Health.
Vanash Patel is a Consultant Colorectal Surgeon at West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and an Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London. He is the driving force and vision behind the multi-speciality robotic surgical programme at Watford General Hospital. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree and Diploma from Imperial College and obtained a Masters in Surgical Science, also from Imperial College. He completed his medical training at St Georges Hospital Medical School, London and has completed two fellowships at St Mark’s Hospital and the Joint London Colorectal Clinical Fellow at St Thomas’ and University College London Hospitals.
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