Providing the best patient-centered care, as measured by the individual patient's perceived value of care at a reasonable cost, has become the established definition of value-based health care (VBHC).

Imagine if a patient came to see a doctor for high blood pressure. Now imagine if that doctor measured their blood pressure once on intake, and then never again, while continuing their treatment.

Historically, patient-reported outcome measures were primarily utilized for research purposes in orthopedics.However, renewed ...

An Oncologist's Guide to Ensuring Your First Medical Grand Rounds Will Be Your Last Each team from nine jurisdictions submitted a final report describing their PROM implementation project. Reports ...

To say “no” would be to ignore the fact that we have been collecting patient-reported outcome measures for more than 10 years. This effort began in orthopedics as a small pilot project at my ...

Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) are crucial tools for assessing the health and well-being of children, yet their application in pediatrics faces unique challenges due to developmental ...

Patients with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) could have improved monitoring and assessment of their disease through the utilization of patient-reported outcome measures. Patient-reported outcome ...

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