The aim of treating childhood cancer remains to cure all. As survival rates improve, long-term health outcomes increasingly define quality of care. The International Childhood Cancer Outcome Project ...

A new measurement tool helps analyzing the survival rate of children with cancer, but also the quality of survival. Researchers at the Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology have worked with ...

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 ...

The proliferation of diabetes quality measures in the US since the mid-1990s has increased the burden of measurement without commensurate improvements in the quality of care or health outcomes.

Transitions of care are critical periods when NICU patients are at risk for miscommunication leading to patient harm. This quality improvement project aimed to decrease post-operative hand-off-related ...

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 ...

Successful projects prioritise outcomes over outputs to deliver real organisational value. Adopting an outcome-focused approach requires a shift in mindset. Projects should begin with clearly defined ...

The quality-measurement movement began more than 20 years ago and has resulted in transparent quality-performance information, accountability, and improvements. At the same time, proliferation of ...

This Forefront article synthesizes lessons from widely adopted health care quality metrics to inform future quality metric design and development. The evolution of health care quality metrics over the ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. While diagnostic tests are used to determine the cause of signs and symptoms, outcome ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers developed a new 14-item patient-reported outcome measure for assessing quality of life in men and ...