Standardizing Patient Outcomes Measurement

"If we’re to unlock the potential of value-based health care for driving improvement, outcomes measurement must accelerate. That means committing to measuring a minimum sufficient set of outcomes for every major medical condition — with well-defined methods for their collection and risk adjustment — and then standardizing those sets nationally and globally."

Standardizing Patient Outcomes Measurement
ME Porter, S Larsson, TH Lee
New England Journal of Medicine 2016; 374:504-506 DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1511701

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Atrial fibrillation care improvement collaborative

"Interdepartmental collaboration and care standardization offer opportunities to improve quality of care and reduce costs for patients with atrial fibrillation. These patients are able to avoid inpatient hospitalization, benefit from a new anticoagulation option, and follow up more closely with their primary care providers in order to address long term care plans."

 Atrial fibrillation care improvement collaborative
P Robelia, S Kopecky, T Thacher
BMJ Quality Improvement Reports, 2015;4: doi:10.1136/bmjquality.u208947.w3629

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Template reports for radiology cancer staging: improving information

"This initiative uses templates to record tumour staging information from magnetic resonance (MR) investigations. The information provided by radiologists to clinicians is improved and standardised, allowing management decisions to be better informed and reducing the need for additional clarification. This initiative is primarily about improving quality, although there are some small productivity savings"

Template reports for radiology cancer staging: improving information to guide treatment decisions
Quality and Productivity case study
Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
July 2015

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