The Journal of ambulatory care management
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J Ambul Care Manage · Oct 1997
Conducting clinical and health economic outcome studies in an ambulatory setting.
Increasingly, health care practitioners are addressing economic (health care resource utilization) and nonclinical (patient satisfaction and quality of life) outcomes along with traditional clinical outcomes (morbidities, mortalities, cure rates, etc.) in assessing the impact and quality of care provided to their patients. These additional outcomes also are collected to assist health care providers to meet accreditation standards and to aid in the selection of alternative health care interventions in an environment of limited resources. ⋯ In addition, relevant resource utilization and outcome measures are identified based on a variety of provider/payer perspectives. Finally, a framework to develop a strategic operating plan for measuring and valuing outcome measures in an ambulatory setting is presented.