Why is there growing urgency around outcome measures in clinical research? Over the past decade, regulators have made it clear that patient experience data isn’t simply a “nice to have,” but rather, a ...

The use of aggregate (i.e., practice-wide) patient-reported outcome measurement (PROM) for program evaluation and quality improvement is nothing new in behavioral healthcare. Hospitals, large ...

Health care quality measures traditionally take into account things that are easy to measure, such as adverse events, medication adherence, and trends in blood glucose levels. These measures are often ...

Synthesis of multistakeholder perspectives from a mixed-methods study identifies guiding characteristics for outcomes-based quality measures in future, more patient-centered alternative payment models ...

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Adult hearing health care lacks standard outcome measures that are related in meaningful ways to the individual’s perception of their functional abilities and the impact their hearing difficulties ...

Lupus is a complicated and debilitating autoimmune disease, affecting millions of people across the globe. Yet, lupus drug development lags behind that of other rheumatic diseases, likely due to the ...

This review presents a set of evidence-based outcome measures for oncology alternative payment models, drawing on evidence from existing and proposed quality measures. Objectives: This paper aims to ...