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 ...

The National Quality Forum has endorsed eight additional outcome measures for “high-impact” areas of hospital care, expanding the original outcome measures it endorsed for conditions and care in the ...

A novel measure of geographic atrophy shows a stronger correlation with vision loss than the area of the lesion and could aid ...

Amid multiple important data points showing spine surgery success, many physicians find that patient lifestyle is the best ...

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 ...

Rare disease can significantly reduce patients’ quality of life, and the use of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) can be key to helping researchers understand how diseases and treatments ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . More than 100 years ago, Ernest Amory Codman, MD, FACS, introduced his “end result idea.” Codman advocated that ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A workshop of health professionals, patients and caregivers recommended that a core outcome measure for ...

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas – The Extremity Trauma and Amputation Center of Excellence (EACE) will conduct this year’s Federal Advanced Amputation Skills Training (FAAST) Symposium ...

After George Floyd’s murder in May 2020, state governments and our health care system have increased attention to racism and its impact on health equity. There has also been heightened awareness that ...