The Santa Barbara Independent

Santa Barbara Paramedic Flips Traditional Patient Assessment on Its Head

Veteran paramedic and EMS educator Mark Rock’s new patient assessment model is now mandated policy for paramedics in Ventura ...
The American Journal of Managed Care

Patient-Centered Outcome Assessment May Lead to Different Conclusions and Different Treatment Decisions

Most illnesses today are measured in terms of their effects on daily activities, but who do not always consider the outcomes based on the patient's perspectives. Many clinical studies instead apply ...
Health Affairs

Health Technology Assessment: Evidence Generation Methods For Patient-Driven Values

This article is part of a Health Affairs Forefront short series, “Enhancing Value By Evaluating Health Care Services.” The series discusses ways to extend the use of tools for clinical and economic ...
Health Affairs

Measuring Value Based On What Matters To Patients: A New Value Assessment Framework

We spend 18 percent of our national gross domestic product on health care. As health care spending continues to grow and as we appropriately drive the health care system toward a payment system that ...
Becker's ASC

The Preoperative Patient Assessment in an Ambulatory Surgery Center

According to center policies, all patients deemed appropriate for procedures performed at the center are to be interviewed in order to collect a comprehensive patient history, to include medications, ...
Becker's ASC

Strengthening Patient Safety: A Closer Look at VTE Risk Assessment

Every detail matters. In healthcare, small actions can lead to big outcomes—and sometimes, those outcomes save lives. An often-overlooked threat in outpatient care is Venous Thromboembolism (VTE), ...
The American Journal of Managed Care

Contributor: The Critical Role of Patient Engagement in Patient-Centered Outcomes Research and Health Technology Assessment of Rare Disease Treatments

Patient engagement is a necessity when performing health technology assessment to help better assess and identify the outcomes of a rare disease. Rare diseases present distinct challenges to health ...
Healio

AGA risk assessment tool aids patient, physician decision-making for Crohn’s therapy

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . DENVER — A risk stratification assessment assisted both patients with Crohn’s disease and their physicians when ...
Becker's Hospital Review

Patient Safety Tool: The Patient Education Materials Assessment Tool and User’s Guide

The Patient Education Materials Assessment Tool and User’s Guide: An Instrument to Assess the Understandability and Actionability of Print and Audiovisual Patient Education Materials is a resource for ...
Forbes

Patient Survival Jumps If In-Hospital MD Aced Assessment Test: Study

Patients are significantly likelier to survive a hospital stay if their hospitalist scored in the top quartile on a knowledge test linked to board certification. The odds that a patient survives a ...
Healio

Higher patient global assessment threshold improves RA remission criteria agreement

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A higher threshold for patient global assessment — 2 cm rather than 1 cm — increases agreement between Boolean ...