Question: Over the course of treatment for your back / neck problem. how satisfied were you with your overall medical care in our hospital?

Undesirable Effect of Surgery

This is an expected effect of the surgery i.e. stiffness after a fusion procedure.

Failure of Surgery

This is a failure of surgery to achieve results i.e. persistent sciatica after discectomy.

Complication

This is a recognised negative outcome that is not part of the normal intra- or post-operative experience i.e. spinal cord injury.

This reflects the overall healthcare journey experience and not surgical outcome.

A patient may have a poor healthcare experience, despite a good surgical outcome.

Dr Foster collects data for all healthcare episodes in Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust. It provides data sheets for each consultant.

Spine TANGO

PROMs & PREMs

SpineTANGO shows that overall PROM for surgery was 96.0% for Mr Yasin's patients and 85.9% for all other surgeons within the same institution.

Though on the surface, this would appear that outcomes are better for Mr Yasin's patients, the truth is that such a measure is, at best a crude indicator. Factors such as patient selection, revision procedures, co-morbidities etc mean that, the pooled results for all surgeons may in fact be skewed downwards.

Therefore, our conclusion is that the outcomes demonstrate that Mr Yasin's patient outcomes are at least equal to other surgeons within the same institution for index procedures.

A negative surgical outcome is any detrimental effect of surgery. There are 3 types with complications being one.

Negative Surgical Outcome

This is Mr Yasin's data card for lumbar decompression in 2015.

Scoliosis Research Society

Question: Overall, how much did the operation in our hospital help your back / neck problem?

Patient Reported Surgical Outcomes Comparison to All Surgeons within Institution

Mr Yasin is a member of the SRS. This is a worldwide organisation that is dedicated to the optimal care of patients with spine deformity.

Membership is based on having a dedicated spine surgery practice, research and education endeavour and submission of outcome data to the SRS. This ensures that outcomes for any individual surgeon are comparable to other spine surgeons around the world. Mr Yasin submits his data annually and can be found on their register for worldwide spine specialists.

SRS Worldwide Spine Specialist Register

SpineTANGO was founded by the General Assembly of EUROSPINE in 1998. Its aim is to optimise patient care by supporting best practice. SpineTANGO records surgeon reported outcomes as well as PROMS and PREMS.

The following are Mr Yasin's SpineTANGO outcome results.

Mr Yasin ensures his outcome measures are submitted to ensure he is doing the best for his patients. This page summarises his results.

*Outcome data may not reflect the complexity of surgery and patient factors. The Surgeon may not be the only related variable. Inaccuracies of coding and data submission are not the sole responsibility of the Surgeon and can skew data.

Complication Rates

Measuring outcomes is important as it ensures surgeons can improve quality and safety. They also highlight any problems with the surgeon, the team, particular group of patients or the hospital. It is the only way to ensure patients are getting the best care.

Why Measure Outcomes?

Dr Foster HES Data

Patient Reported Healthcare Experience Outcomes

Outcome Data

Patient Reported Healthcare Experience Outcomes Comparison to All Surgeons within Institution

Patient Reported Surgical Outcomes