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Therefore, it is important to find methods to improve follow-up, especially in patients who have failed to respond to initial attempts. We hypothesized that PROMs follow-up could be effectively increased by sending a salvage-effort personalized surgeon letter to sports medicine patients who failed to respond to initial (centralized electronic, mail, and\/or phone contacts) PROMs collection 1\u2009year after surgery. Patients who failed to respond to 1-year follow-up of postoperative PROMs collection at our outpatient sports medicine surgery center were included. Patients were randomized into an intervention or control group. Patients in the intervention group were mailed PROMs form and an Institutional Review Board-approved letter that was personalized with surgical information, surgeon picture, and surgeon signature. Control group was mailed the same letter a month later. Chi-squared analysis was conducted at 5\u2009weeks. Out of 843 surgeries, our initial 1-year PROMs follow-up rate was 65%, which allowed for 292 patients to be eligible for our study. After exclusions, 281 patients (randomized to 140 control group and 141 intervention group) were included in our study. We found a 20% response rate in the intervention group with 28 patients returning PROMs as compared with a 1.4% rate in the control group with two patients returning PROMs. The odds ratio was 17.1 (95% confidence interval: 4\u201373.3; p\u2009&lt;\u20090.0001). A salvage-effort personalized surgeon letter is an efficient and relatively cost-effective method to increase PROMs follow-up rate, which means that a personalized surgeon letter can reach and engage patients who would otherwise be considered lost to follow-up, allowing for better outcomes monitoring after surgery.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1055\/s-0039-1694057","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,8,7]],"date-time":"2019-08-07T23:06:56Z","timestamp":1565219216000},"page":"130-136","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":10,"title":["A Last-Ditch Effort and Personalized Surgeon Letter Improves PROMs Follow-Up Rate in Sports Medicine Patients: A Crossover Randomized Controlled Trial"],"prefix":"10.1055","volume":"34","author":[{"given":"Muhammad B.","family":"Tariq","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio"},{"name":"Cleveland Clinic Orthopaedic Sports Medicine, 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