Patient-centered care in abdominal surgery: Measuring recovery outcomes that matter to patients

Current Projects

1. Developing Patient-Reported Outcomes to measure recovery after abdominal surgery

The goal of this research project is to develop a PRO measure aimed to assess postoperative recovery from the perspective of patients undergoing abdominal surgery. This project complies with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) guidelines for PRO development and will be conducted in three phases: (Phase 1) qualitative interviews with patients to develop a conceptual framework and generate relevant items, (Phase 2) use of Rasch Analysis for item-reduction and scale formation, and (Phase 3) further assessment of measurement properties based on traditional psychometric methods.

2. Impact of Enhanced Recovery Pathway on Patient Reported Outcomes After Abdominal Surgery: A Systematic Review

The aim of this study is to assess the extent to which enhanced recovery pathways (ERPs) impact patient reported outcomes (PROs) after abdominal surgery.

Publications

(*Denotes role as supervisor of the first author)
  1. Alam R*, Montanez J, Law S, Lee L, Pecorelli N, Watanabe Y, Chiavegato LD, Falconi M, Hirano S, Mayo NE, Feldman LS, Fiore JF Jr. Development of a conceptual framework of recovery after abdominal surgery. Surg Endosc 2020;34(6):2665-2674. DOI

  2. Alsharqawi N, Alhashemi M, Kaneva P, Baldini G, Fiore JF Jr, Feldman LS, Lee L. Validity of the I-FEED score for postoperative gastrointestinal function in patients undergoing colorectal surgery. Surg Endosc 2020;34(5):2219-2226. DOI

  3. Alam R*, Figueiredo SM, Balvardi S, Nauche B, Landry T, Lee L, Mayo NE, Feldman LS, Fiore JF Jr. Development of a patient-reported outcome measure of recovery after abdominal surgery: a hypothesized conceptual framework. Surg Endosc 2018; 32(12):4874-4885. DOI

  4. Fiore Jr. JF, Figueiredo S, Balvardi S, Lee L, Nauche B, Landry T, Mayo N and Feldman LS. How do we value postoperative recovery? A systematic review of the measurement properties of patient-reported outcomes after abdominal surgery. Ann Surg 2018; 267(4):656-669. DOI