Feasibility of routine collection of patient reported outcome measures

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In response to recommendations by the Australian Commission on Quality and Safety in Healthcare and in collaboration with the National Centre for Healthy Ageing Data Platform, there is a plan to implement routine collection of PROMs at Peninsula Health. Since 2020, we have conducted several studies, informed by an evidence-based framework, that have led to the i) selection of an acceptable PROM to be routinely collected across the service and ii) development of a co-designed PROMs collection system and strategy to maximise routine collection. This study is a feasibility implementation study that will be conducted sequentially across two sites, one acute and one sub-acute hospital ward, using an iterative design approach. We aim to determine the feasibility of the co-designed PROMs collection system prior to organisational-wide implementation. Consumer participants will include all patients aged 60 years or older who are discharged to a private residence or residential aged care home during the study period. Patients with cognitive or communication impairments will complete the PROM via proxy (i.e. family member, next of kin, carer completes the PROM on their behalf). In addition to the consumer participants, volunteers who administer PROMs will be recruited to the project to explore their perceptions of the feasibility of the PROMs collection system. The primary outcome will be the feasibility of using the co-designed digital PROMs collection system which will be determined using the following focus areas of Bowen et al.’s framework: Acceptability (e.g. acceptability of the PROM and collection system measured using surveys), demand (e.g. proportion of participants who complete the PROM), implementation (e.g. item completion/completeness of data), practicality (e.g. cost of implementing PROMs collection system), and adaptation (e.g. differences in outcomes between acute and sub-acute wards).