Outcomes Measurement

NEJM Catalyst Insights Council members largely rate their organizations’ quality and patient safety outcomes highly, but acknowledge many challenges.

Patient-reported experience measures (PREMs) have a robust role in performance measurement in both public- and private-sector health care payment plans.

What are employers most worried about with patient experience? What are health plans doing about it? And what does this mean for clinical practice?

A roundtable discussion about the payer and purchaser role in shaping and improving patient experience.

PATIENT-CENTERED INNOVATION THEME ISSUE: Building on years of experience with patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs), leaders at Amsterdam University Medical Centers established a multidisciplinary PROM implementation team that developed and deployed a PROM Policy and a PROM Pathway. Together, these tools guide a centralized, evidence-based process to integrate PROMs into routine...

PATIENT-CENTERED INNOVATION THEME ISSUE: NEJM Catalyst Insights Council members in the United States and Argentina discuss how to assess patient-centered care.

PATIENT-CENTERD INNOVATION THEME ISSUE: The July 2024 issue of NEJM Catalyst Innovations in Care Delivery explores how to put patients at the center of care delivery.

PATIENT-CENTERED INNOVATION THEME ISSUE: Survey data from four European countries indicate that patients place greater importance on patient-reported outcome measures than on patient-reported experience measures.

PATIENT-CENTERED INNOVATION THEME ISSUE: NEJM Catalyst Insights Council members say patient perspectives must be incorporated into care delivery. But translating data into action is challenging.

PATIENT-CENTERED INNOVATION THEME ISSUE: The effective design, collection, and use of patient-reported outcome measures have many benefits for patients, clinicians, and payers. Mass General Brigham’s launch of a standardized collection program has been a major step in the value-based transformation of care at the health system.

The development of four virtual care sites, each between 75 and 200 miles from the urban tertiary care center, has contributed to improved access to specialized care and better clinical outcomes.

Early results of an initiative at Vejle Hospital in the Region of Southern Denmark show promise, with clinically reported data indicating reductions in readmissions 30 days after discharge, as well as some improved patient-reported outcome measures 1 year after surgery.

A roundtable discussion on implementing new money models that innovate health care delivery.

Health care leaders must implement outcomes data in the clinical setting, with a feedback loop, to make impactful change to care delivery.

A roadmap for implementing value-based care is useful, but a healthy respect of the local environment is crucial.

The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation’s new Quality Pathway will align model design around quality goals, elevate outcomes and experience measures, and ensure that evaluations are better designed to assess the impact of models on primary quality goals.

A roundtable discussion on how anchor institutions can “do the right thing” to fully engage patients and better serve their needs.

Electronic Symptom Management, an electronic health record–integrated toolkit for both patients and providers, promotes improved symptom management for prospective cancer patients who experience high symptom burden.

An international provider of data and statistics products and services is collaborating with a publisher in developing hospital rating tools that incorporate metrics related to patient-reported outcome measures implementation by health care leaders worldwide that, eventually, could support the adoption and impact of such patient-related data on value-based care delivery.

A new primary care delivery model relies on clinician influence to obtain better health outcomes.