YOUR BREAST AND ENDOCRINE OUTCOMES OUTCOMES, IN ONE CLEAR RECORD

Capture your cases and complications as you operate, follow what your patients report about living with the result, and see how your outcomes compound over time_

YOUR BREAST AND ENDOCRINE OUTCOMES OUTCOMES, IN ONE CLEAR RECORD

Capture your cases and complications as you operate, follow what your patients report about living with the result, and see how your outcomes compound over time_

The result on record is your assessment. The one that matters is hers.

In breast surgery the cosmetic outcome is conventionally recorded as the surgeon’s judgement: good, fair or poor. The patient is not asked. Yet satisfaction with how she looks, and with the decision she made, is what she lives with, and the two views do not always agree.

In endocrine surgery the gap is different but no smaller. Voice changes after thyroidectomy occur even when the nerve is anatomically intact, and can persist for a year or more. Hypocalcaemia declares itself after discharge. Unless something asks the patient directly, neither reliably finds its way back to you.

Which leaves the questions you cannot answer from memory:

Would my patients rate their result the way I have recorded it?

How many of my thyroidectomy patients still have voice changes at six months?

What is my true rate of permanent hypocalcaemia?

The result on record is your assessment. The one that matters is hers.

In breast surgery the cosmetic outcome is conventionally recorded as the surgeon’s judgement: good, fair or poor. The patient is not asked. Yet satisfaction with how she looks, and with the decision she made, is what she lives with, and the two views do not always agree.

In endocrine surgery the gap is different but no smaller. Voice changes after thyroidectomy occur even when the nerve is anatomically intact, and can persist for a year or more. Hypocalcaemia declares itself after discharge. Unless something asks the patient directly, neither reliably finds its way back to you.

Which leaves the questions you cannot answer from memory:

Would my patients rate their result the way I have recorded it?

How many of my thyroidectomy patients still have voice changes at six months?

What is my true rate of permanent hypocalcaemia?

The result on record is your assessment. The one that matters is hers.

In breast surgery the cosmetic outcome is conventionally recorded as the surgeon’s judgement: good, fair or poor. The patient is not asked. Yet satisfaction with how she looks, and with the decision she made, is what she lives with, and the two views do not always agree.

In endocrine surgery the gap is different but no smaller. Voice changes after thyroidectomy occur even when the nerve is anatomically intact, and can persist for a year or more. Hypocalcaemia declares itself after discharge. Unless something asks the patient directly, neither reliably finds its way back to you.

Which leaves the questions you cannot answer from memory:

Would my patients rate their result the way I have recorded it?

How many of my thyroidectomy patients still have voice changes at six months?

What is my true rate of permanent hypocalcaemia?

WHAT ALREADY GETS MEASURED

WHAT ALREADY GETS MEASURED

Your breast audit is mandatory and detailed.
It records almost nothing about complications, and nothing from your patients.

Your data in real time.

Breast surgery in Australia and New Zealand has something rare and worth valuing: a mandatory audit that reports to the individual surgeon rather than the unit. But its performance indicators are process measures, covering referral, therapy, multidisciplinary discussion and timing. It records the cosmetic result as scored by the operating surgeon, and it collects no patient-reported outcome at all.

For endocrine surgery there is almost nothing. There is no association audit, and the only thyroid registry is voluntary, covers cancer alone, and excludes benign thyroid, parathyroid and adrenal surgery entirely. In the United Kingdom, endocrine surgeons receive a personal outcomes dashboard they can use for appraisal. Here, the same annual audit obligation applies with no vehicle to meet it.

An image if the Surgical performance Dashboard
An image if the Surgical performance Dashboard
An image if the Surgical performance Dashboard

THE PATIENT’S VIEW

Ask her, rather than deciding for her.

PROMS sends validated surveys to your patients by SMS at intervals appropriate to the procedure, and you choose which go out when you set up each case. Patients answer at home rather than across a desk, where people are markedly more candid.

For breast surgery that means satisfaction with the result and with the decision, in her words rather than your assessment. For thyroid and parathyroid surgery it means voice and symptom recovery tracked across the months where changes actually declare themselves, rather than at the one appointment where you happen to ask.

THE PATIENT’S VIEW

Ask her, rather than deciding for her.

PROMS sends validated surveys to your patients by SMS at intervals appropriate to the procedure, and you choose which go out when you set up each case. Patients answer at home rather than across a desk, where people are markedly more candid.

For breast surgery that means satisfaction with the result and with the decision, in her words rather than your assessment. For thyroid and parathyroid surgery it means voice and symptom recovery tracked across the months where changes actually declare themselves, rather than at the one appointment where you happen to ask.

THE PATIENT’S VIEW

Ask her, rather than deciding for her.

PROMS sends validated surveys to your patients by SMS at intervals appropriate to the procedure, and you choose which go out when you set up each case. Patients answer at home rather than across a desk, where people are markedly more candid.

For breast surgery that means satisfaction with the result and with the decision, in her words rather than your assessment. For thyroid and parathyroid surgery it means voice and symptom recovery tracked across the months where changes actually declare themselves, rather than at the one appointment where you happen to ask.

INSIDE THE BREAST & ENDOCRINE MODULE

Built around the procedures and outcomes that define breast and endocrine surgery

Built around the procedures and outcomes that define breast and endocrine surgery

Two closely linked practices in one record, with the complications and patient-reported results that define each.

Two closely linked practices in one record, with the complications and patient-reported results that define each.

Your full case mix
Better Visibility

Breast conserving surgery, mastectomy, axillary surgery and reconstruction, alongside thyroid, parathyroid and adrenal procedures.

Breast conserving surgery, mastectomy, axillary surgery and reconstruction, alongside thyroid, parathyroid and adrenal procedures.

The complications that matter
The complications that matter

Re-excision, seroma, haematoma, infection and return to theatre, and for endocrine work, nerve injury, voice change, hypocalcaemia and haematoma.

Patient-reported recovery
Powerful Audit-Ready Data
Powerful Audit-Ready Data

Satisfaction with the result and with the decision, voice, and how they are functioning, captured directly rather than inferred.

Personal trends over time
Surgeon-Led Improvement

Patterns across procedures and across years that no single case can show you.

Patterns across procedures and across years that no single case can show you.

Audit-ready whenever
Surgeon-Led Improvement

Covering the endocrine work no audit reaches, and the complications the breast audit does not record.

Covering the endocrine work no audit reaches, and the complications the breast audit does not record.

 Your data is yours. It is not shared with your hospital, your college or your insurer, and it does not appear in any public rating.

Only de-identified, aggregated data powers peer benchmarks.

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START NOW

Start building your breast and endocrine insights with ease.

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START NOW

Start building your breast and endocrine insights with ease.

LOW-ADMIN BY DESIGN

Built for a full theatre list and a busy clinic

Start capturing surgical insights — in minutes.

Step 01

Start a case in seconds

Quick Case lets you or your rooms open a case and schedule its surveys in seconds. Record as much detail as you prefer.

Step 02

Follow-up runs itself

Surveys run automatically, and responses come back to you, privately.

Step 03

Review in a minute

Scan the recovery of everyone you operated on last week, and the weeks before, in under a minute.

Step 04

Reflect and act

Use what you see for your CPD, for conversations with colleagues and referrers, and for your own practice.

THE RECORD COMPOUNDS

The record you build is yours, and it gets more valuable every year.

Published work on thyroid surgery has consistently found that most thyroidectomies are performed by surgeons who do very few of them each year, and that complication rates differ measurably between low and high volume operators. If you perform a modest number of a given procedure annually, one year of your own data is noise. Five years is a signal.

A surgeon who starts recording this year has a decade of their own outcome data in ten years’ time. One who waits five years does not, and cannot get those years back.

THE RECORD COMPOUNDS

The record you build is yours, and it gets more valuable every year.

• Outcome tracking and performance review
• Patient satisfaction and feedback
• Quality improvement activities
• Reflective practice and benchmarking

THE RECORD COMPOUNDS

The record you build is yours, and it gets more valuable every year.

Published work on thyroid surgery has consistently found that most thyroidectomies are performed by surgeons who do very few of them each year, and that complication rates differ measurably between low and high volume operators. If you perform a modest number of a given procedure annually, one year of your own data is noise. Five years is a signal.

A surgeon who starts recording this year has a decade of their own outcome data in ten years’ time. One who waits five years does not, and cannot get those years back.

Evidence for your annual surgical audit

Surgeons are expected to audit their own practice each year and submit it for peer review, benchmarked against a standard or against peers, and patient feedback is a recognised part of reviewing your own performance. If your breast work is already captured elsewhere, SurgicalPerformance adds the complication and patient-reported layers that audit does not collect, and covers your endocrine practice, which has no audit of its own.

CERTFIED LEARNING PROVIDER WITH CPD HOME

• Outcome tracking and performance review
• Patient satisfaction and feedback
• Quality improvement activities
• Reflective practice and benchmarking

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Evidence for your annual surgical audit

Surgeons are expected to audit their own practice each year and submit it for peer review, benchmarked against a standard or against peers, and patient feedback is a recognised part of reviewing your own performance. If your breast work is already captured elsewhere, SurgicalPerformance adds the complication and patient-reported layers that audit does not collect, and covers your endocrine practice, which has no audit of its own.

CERTFIED LEARNING PROVIDER WITH CPD HOME

• Outcome tracking and performance review
• Patient satisfaction and feedback
• Quality improvement activities
• Reflective practice and benchmarking

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SUPPORTS CPD ACROSS
MULTIPLE COLLEGES

Surgeons are expected to audit their own practice each year and submit it for peer review, benchmarked against a standard or against peers, and patient feedback is a recognised part of reviewing your own performance. If your breast work is already captured elsewhere, SurgicalPerformance adds the complication and patient-reported layers that audit does not collect, and covers your endocrine practice, which has no audit of its own.

CERTFIED LEARNING PROVIDER WITH CPD HOME

• Outcome tracking and performance review
• Patient satisfaction and feedback
• Quality improvement activities
• Reflective practice and benchmarking

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SECURE AND CONFIDENTIAL


Your breast and endocrine data is encrypted, private, and yours.

Your breast and endocrine data is encrypted, private, and yours.

Your breast and endocrine data is encrypted, private, and yours.

Encrypted & confidential

Cloud based, secure and validated

You own your data
Your records and insights remain yours
Hosted locally
Fast, secure servers with access 24/7

What you record is not shared with your hospital, your college or your insurer, and it does not appear in any public rating. Only de-identified, aggregated data powers peer benchmarks.

Surgical Performance Inshights and Progress Dashboard

Breast & Endocrine Surgery outcomes

Breast & Endocrine Surgery outcomes

frequently asked questions

How can I track my breast surgery outcomes?

Record each case and its outcomes in one place as you operate. SurgicalPerformance captures your activity, complications and what your patients report continuously, and presents them on a single private dashboard.

Can I track thyroid and parathyroid complications?

Yes. Nerve injury, voice change, hypocalcaemia, haematoma and return to theatre are recorded as they happen, so your own rates are calculated from your cases rather than estimated from memory.

Does this replace my breast quality audit?

No. It is designed to sit alongside it. The existing audit covers the treatment pathway and reports to you individually, which is valuable. SurgicalPerformance adds the complications it does not record and the patient-reported results it does not collect.

Can I collect patient-reported outcomes after breast surgery?

Can I collect patient-reported outcomes after breast surgery? Yes. Validated surveys are sent to your patients by SMS at intervals appropriate to the procedure, so satisfaction with the result comes from the patient rather than from your assessment of it.

Who can see my data?

Only you. Your records are not shared with your hospital, your college or your insurer, and they do not appear in any public rating. Only de-identified, aggregated data powers peer benchmarks.

Is there an audit for endocrine surgery?

There is no dedicated association audit for endocrine surgery in Australia or New Zealand, and the available thyroid registry is voluntary and limited to cancer. SurgicalPerformance covers thyroid, parathyroid and adrenal work, including benign disease.

START TRIAL

Start building your breast and endocrine outcomes record from your first case

Start building your breast and endocrine outcomes record from your first case

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  • 10 cases of full functionality

  • Full access to INSIGHTS and PROMS

  • Discounted annual subscription rates

SurgicalPerformance is a confidential online platform, built for surgeons by surgeons, to help you ‘know better’.

SurgicalPerformance is a confidential online platform, built for surgeons by surgeons, to help you ‘know better’.

SurgicalPerformance is a confidential online platform, built for surgeons by surgeons, to help you ‘know better’.