Routine Collection of Patient-Reported Outcomes in Thoracic Surgery: A Quality Improvement Study

Patient-reported outcomes are critical for delivering high-quality surgical care, yet they are seldom collected in routine clinical practice. The objective of this quality improvement study was to improve routine patient-reported outcomes collection in a thoracic surgery clinic.Thoracic surgery patients at a single academic institution were prospectively monitored from April 2019 to March 2020. The National Institutes of Health-validated...