Patient and healthcare practitioner evaluation of patient-reported outcomes in bariatric surgery – a modified Delphi study
Authors' conclusion
While there was considerable agreement between stakeholder groups on many outcomes, there remain several outcomes with discordant importance valuations that must be considered. In particular, healthcare practitioners prioritised 20 outcomes that were not prioritised by patients, emphasising the range of priorities across stakeholder groups. Future work will consider these priorities to ensure resulting measures encompass all important outcomes and are beneficial and valid for end users.
Study context
- Population
- Pre- and post-bariatric-surgery patients and healthcare practitioners involved in bariatric carecompleted both rounds
- Participants
- 20 / 95 / 28
- Comparison
- Pre-surgical patients vs post-surgical patients vs healthcare practitioners
- Pre-surgicaln = 20
- Post-surgicaln = 95
- Healthcare practitionersn = 28
- Outcome
- Patient-reported outcomes prioritised (rated 8-10 by at least 70% of participants)
Methodological detailstwo rounds
- Two rounds
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Outcomes prioritised
58
Prioritised by all three groups (out of 90)
21
23.3%
Prioritised by two groups
13
14.4%
Prioritised by a single group or subgroup
24
26.7%
Original publication
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