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Description

This is the first annual refresh publication of post-operatives scores from the Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) programme. This publication builds upon the published pre-operative data and considers the change in patients' self-reported health status for the four common elective surgical procedures in the PROMs programme: groin hernia surgery, hip replacement, knee replacement and varicose vein surgery. Analysis covers the period from April 2009 to the end of March 2010 and includes pre-operative questionnaires that all English providers treating NHS patients have been asked to collect from patients who wish to participate and post-operative questionnaires returned by patients following their surgery. Not all patients undergoing the relevant operations returned questionnaires for a variety of reasons.