Estimating recruitment rates for routine use of patient reported outcome measures and the impact on provider comparisons

Table 3 Association between provider recruitment rate and pre-operative PROM scores

	Mean score associated with a 10% higher recruitment rate
	EQ5D index score		Disease specific score
	Coefficient (95% CI)	p-value	Coefficient (95% CI)	p-value
Hip replacement	-0.004 (-0.009, 0.000)	0.063	-0.12 (-0.26, 0.02)	0.089
Knee replacement	-0.003 (-0.008, 0.002)	0.301	-0.09 (-0.23, 0.05)	0.216
Groin hernia repair	-0.002 (-0.005, 0.001)	0.113	-	-
Varicose vein surgery	0.002 (0.000, 0.005)	0.099	-0.15 (-0.28, -0.02)	0.020

Lower scores indicate greater severity for all measures except the condition specific score for varicose vein surgery.

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