What Is the Value of Patient-Reported Outcomes?
Americans have poor health outcomes despite spending much more than other industrialized nations on health care. Patient-reported outcomes promote public health and improve the quality of health care.
Related Work
Longstanding debate about how to ensure and measure excellent healthcare abounds. Increasingly health professionals, insurers, researchers and, indeed, patients and families, are recognizing that health care is better when patients’ needs are placed at the center of the decision-making process. How can we capture patient voices in ways that can improve healthcare delivery, cost, and outcomes? How do we measure what matters to the person who becomes a patient when illness strikes?
Patient-reported outcomes measure patients’ direct experiences of their health condition and health care. San Keller explains the value of such outcomes in promoting public health and improving the quality of health care.
Patient-centered measurement involves partnering with patients in a meaningful way to decide what we measure, how we measure it, and how we report and use the results of measurement.
Further Reading
- Long Story Short: What is the Value of Patient-Reported Outcomes?
- The American Institutes for Research Partners with Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to Improve Primary Care Practices
- Placing Patients at the Center of Health Care
- AIR Health Experts Present Comprehensive Consumer-Based Index to Describe What Cancer Patients Value in their Care
- Giving Voice to the Vulnerable: The Development of a CAHPS Nursing Home Survey Measuring Family Member Experiences