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Development of a Patient Reported Outcome measure for Lower LImb reconsTruction: PROLLIT.

What is a Patient Reported Outcome Measure and why is this study needed?

Patient reported outcome measures (known as PROMs) are designed and developed to assess patients’ health outcomes from the patient’s perspective. PROMS are used to measure whether a treatment works, to monitor and improve care and to inform care management and health policy. Patients are experts in their own care and are best placed to identify which health outcomes are most relevant to them. Despite this, patients often have limited input in the development of PROMS. This has led to concerns over the extent to which existing PROMS used with patients who are requiring, undergoing or who have undergone reconstructive surgery for a lower limb condition, are fit for the purpose of accurately capturing these patients’ important experiences.

Study Aims

PROLLIT aims to undertake research to investigate whether a new PROM is needed for use in research involving people who are requiring, undergoing or who have undergone reconstructive surgery for a lower limb condition. Patients will be included if they are adults (16+) requiring, undergoing or undergone reconstructive surgery for a lower limb condition (leg, ankle or foot) which may be as a result of a congenital or acquired condition, from trauma, infection, nonunion or malunion. Patients will be excluded if they have experienced a condition in a part of the body that is not a lower limb, they have had a lower limb amputation and if they are under the age of 16.

What will the study involve?

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The University of York and Hull University Teaching Hospitals

Sponsor University of York
Start Date June 2019 
End Date (Phase 1) August 2021 
End Date (Phase 2 & 3) TBC 

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