ReviewEFORT open reviews2021
Closing the loop: a 10-year experience with routine outcome measurements to improve treatment in hand surgery.
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12 citing papers in PubMed.
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- What are the perspectives of patients with hand and wrist conditions, chronic pain, and patients recovering from stroke on the use of patient and outcome information in everyday care? A Mixed-Methods study.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2024Article
- A decade of change towards Value-Based Health Care at a Dutch University Hospital: a complexity-informed process study.Health research policy and systems · 2024Article
- Patient-Rated Wrist Evaluation Threshold for Successful Open Surgery of the Triangular Fibrocartilage Complex.Journal of wrist surgery · 2024Article
- An alternative treatment for degenerative triangular fibrocartilage complex injuries with distal radioulnar joint instability: first experience with 48 patients.The Journal of hand surgery, European volume · 2024Article
- Relationship between pain, nerve injury and clinical outcomes after flexor tendon injuries in zones 1-2: a retrospective cohort study.Hand therapy · 2023Article
- Reflections on Managing the Performance of Value-Based Healthcare: A Scoping Review.International journal of health policy and management · 2023Article
- Long-term outcomes after ulna shortening osteotomy: a mean follow-up of six years.Bone & joint open · 2022Article
- Assessing Textbook Outcome After Implementation of Transversus Abdominis Release in a Regional Hospital.Journal of abdominal wall surgery : JAWS · 2022Article
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Abstract
Routine outcome measurements as a critical prerequisite of value-based healthcare have received considerable attention recently. There has been less attention for the last step in value-based healthcare where measurement of outcomes also leads to improvement in the quality of care. This is probably not without reason, since the last part of the learning cycle: 'Closing the loop', seems the hardest to implement.The journey from measuring outcomes to changing daily care can be troublesome. As early adopters of value-based healthcare, we would like to share our 10 years of experience in this journey.Examples of feedback loops are shown based on outcome measurements implemented to improve our daily care process as a focused hand surgery and hand therapy clinic.Feedback loops can be used to improve shared decision making, to monitor or predict treatment progression over time, for extreme value detection, improve journal clubs, and surgeon evaluation.Our goal as surgeons to improve treatment should not stop at the act of implementing routine outcome measurements.We should implement routine analysis and routine feedback loops, because real-time performance feedback can accelerate our learning cycle. Cite this article:
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