| Evolving applications for patient-centered health status measures. | |
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PMID: 19001034 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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Patient-centered health status measures-assessments of patients' symptoms, function, and quality of life-have matured substantially over the past 2 decades. Currently, valid, reliable, and sensitive disease-specific measures are available for quantifying the health status of patients with cardiovascular disease. This article briefly reviews the concept of health status measures, with a focus on their interpretation. It then discusses both the rationale and potential applications of health status measures in clinical care. Health status measures are not surrogate measures of outcome but rather highly meaningful outcomes of care. As such, they have important emerging roles as outcomes in clinical trials, as tools for monitoring patients in routine clinical care, as a mechanism for operationalizing and evaluating disease management programs, and as tools for quality assessment/improvement. Over time, it is expected that health status measures will also have an increasingly important role in patient-centered medical decision making. By becoming aware of the evolving roles of health status measures, clinicians can help to accelerate the realization of the Institute of Medicine's vision for a more transparent, evidence-based, patient-centered healthcare system. |
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Authors:
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John A Spertus |
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Publication Detail:
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Type: Journal Article; Review |
Journal Detail:
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Title: Circulation Volume: 118 ISSN: 1524-4539 ISO Abbreviation: Circulation Publication Date: 2008 Nov |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 2008-11-12 Completed Date: 2008-12-02 Revised Date: - |
Medline Journal Info:
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Nlm Unique ID: 0147763 Medline TA: Circulation Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 2103-10 Citation Subset: AIM; IM |
Affiliation:
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University of Missouri at Kansas City School of Medicine, Kansas City, Mo., USA. spertusj@umkc.edu |
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Disease Management Health Status Health Status Indicators* Humans Patient Participation Patient-Centered Care* Quality Assurance, Health Care Quality of Life Treatment Outcome |
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