South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

OA06-LBA01.6. Phenotype-Based Framework for Decision-Making in Large Paraesophageal Hernia: Early Clinical Application and Outcome Interpretation

Abstract Topic Benign Disease: Gastro-Esophageal Reflux and Hiatal Hernia Background Large paraesophageal hernias are clinically heterogeneous, yet operative strategies and outcome measures are often applied uniformly. This creates a disconnect between patient presentation, opera...

Benefits and challenges of a Patient & Public Involvement (PPI) peer researcher

Involving a patient and public involvement (PPI) peer researcher with lived experience in clinical research is a relatively new concept and to our knowledge, has not been described in adult cardiac surgery. The integration of a PPI peer researcher with a lived experience of a sur...