How to Measure Health Outcomes : A Hands-On Guide to Getting Started

In healthcare today, there is an increasing focus on measuring and improving health outcomes. This short, simple and practical guide provides the steps needed for healthcare professionals to start measuring health outcomes in a way that can improve how care is delivered day-to-day.

Complementing existing literature on measuring health outcomes that is largely conceptual, this book focuses on simple, practical advice for measuring outcomes in a variety of settings. Written in an engaging conversational tone, readers will learn why measuring health outcomes is necessary in clinical practice and how these measures may vary between people and across care structures. Covering how to identify measurements as well as collect and analyze the data, the chapters lead readers through a series of logical steps to scaling up a measurement program. The workbook style allows readers to record their own notes and thoughts throughout the book, while the list of action steps at the end of chapters are tangible starting points for developing a measurement program of their own. Explores how to measure and think about outcomes in a way that sees the whole person, not just the medical or behavioral condition they have.