The Newcastle ENDOPREM™: a validated patient reported experience measure for gastrointestinal endoscopy.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Measuring patient experience of gastrointestinal (GI) procedures is a key component of evaluation of quality of care. Current measures of patient experience within GI endoscopy are largely clinician derived and measured; however, these do not fully represent the experiences of patients themselves. It is important to measure the entirety of experience and not just experience directly during the procedure. We aimed to develop a patient-reported experience measure (PREM) for GI procedures.

Design

Phase 1: semi-structured interviews were conducted in patients who had recently undergone GI endoscopy or CT colonography (CTC) (included as a comparator). Thematic analysis identified the aspects of experience important to patients. Phase 2: a question bank was developed fr

SUBMITTER: Neilson LJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8547355 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature