Patient-Reported Outcomes

The Michigan Trauma Quality Improvement Program (MTQIP) helps hospitals in Michigan work together to make patient care better. MTQIP supports hospitals and doctors in improving treatment for patients with serious injuries like falls, car or motorcycle accidents, and gunshot wounds.

Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) are ways to measure your experience with your health and treatment. These reports focus on what is most important to you and are based on your own feedback.

The information you give us will be shared with your hospital and the team taking care of you. Overall data will also be shared with other hospitals that are part of MTQIP. We will not share any data that could identify you with anyone else.

Just like your healthcare records, your information will be kept private and secure. Only the MTQIP team members at our coordinating center will have access to your personal information.

If you are eligible, the MTQIP Coordinating Center will get in touch with you. You can share how your healing is going by phone, text, or email at regular intervals.

For the MTQIP patient-reported outcome (PRO) surveys used for quality improvement, there are no incentives offered at this time. These surveys help us understand recovery after injury and improve trauma care across Michigan.

However, there is a separate research study currently being conducted at Michigan Medicine that also collects patient-reported outcomes. Because this is a formal research project, incentives may be available for eligible participants.

This research opportunity is only open to patients receiving care at Michigan Medicine and is different from the statewide quality improvement surveys described on this page. To learn more about the research study, what participation involves, and whether incentives are offered, please watch our short video here.

Please email surgery-quality-mtqip@med.umich.edu to withdraw.