Written in an engaging conversational tone, readers will learn why measuring health outcomes is necessary in clinical practice and how these measures may vary between people and across care structures ...

The NIH asthma guidelines suggest the use of patient-reported outcomes, including health-related quality-of-life measures, to assess asthma control. Clinical practices and research studies ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

In both care settings, the metrics employed to measure performance are mostly process indicators that do not directly assess the outcomes/experiences of patients, and in community do not incorporate ...

MYMOP, Measure Yourself Medical Outcome Profile, and MYCaW, Measure Yourself Concerns and Wellbeing, are a patient-generated, or individualised, outcome questionnaires. MYMOP and MYCaW support pages ...

Post-therapy PSA changes are a seemingly perfect outcome measure because they are easily assessable, quantitative, reproducible, and inexpensive; this is true regardless of whether this outcome ...

Voyage Care has launched a manifesto setting out measures that aim to improve the care sector.

Ellis shares her thoughts on how we’ve gotten to the point where we are assessing college value primarily by looking at individuals’ financial outcomes, whether we’re asking the right questions about ...

Medline, CINAHL, Embase and PubMed were searched (December 2021) for studies evaluating measurement properties of gluteal tendinopathy outcome measures captured in the initial search. Both reviews ...

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