Patient Reported Outcome Measures

We would like cosmetic surgery service providers to routinely collect and report on Q-PROMs for all patients receiving the following procedures:

• abdominoplasty;
• augmentation mammoplasty;
• blepharoplasty;
• liposuction;
• rhinoplasty;
• rhytidectomy.

Patient satisfaction with the outcomes of cosmetic surgery is of singular importance. Completion of PROMs, pre- and post-operatively, allows for a patient’s own measurement of their health and health-related quality of life, and how this has been changed by the surgical intervention. PROMs are distinct from more general measures of satisfaction and experience, being procedure-specific, validated and constructed to reduce bias effects.

The questionnaires should ideally be completed by the patient and collected pre- and post-operatively. The completed questionnaires should be scored and any changes between the scores can be attributed to the surgical intervention.

Guides

You can review the guides via the links below or by visiting the Q-Portfolio website: www.qportfolio.org

BREAST-Q Augmentation

FACE-Q Aesthetics

BODY-Q

Questionnaires

Pre-operative and post-operative questionnaires are available for the following procedures:

• abdominoplasty;
• augmentation mammoplasty;
• blepharoplasty;
• facelift;
• liposuction;
• rhinoplasty.

You can access the questionnaires and other information by contacting:  qportfolioteam@gmail.com.

Background and Licensing

These PROM tools were originally developed by Andrea Pusic, Anne Klassen, and Stefan Cano. Further information and contact details are available at https://qportfolio.org/ . Since then, a wide variety of new questionnaires have been created, such as WOUND-Q and ACNE-Q. 

The Q Portfolio is free for non-profit use, but a license should be obtained at https://qteam.mcmaster.ca/surveys/?s=9X73E834MCH4LPY3 . There is a fee for for-profit/commercial use. MSKCC handles the for-profit licensing of many Q-PROMs and can be reached at qotdtrm@mskcc.org  

For more information, such as access to the scoring tables and tools to support data analysis, contact: qportfolioteam@gmail.com