To assess the implementation of evidence-based genomic medicine and its population-level impact on health outcomes and to promote public health genetics interventions, in 2015 the Roundtable on ...

Death rate was eliminated as a primary outcome measure, replaced with the time it took patients to recover. Government clinical trial investigators changed the primary metric for measuring the success ...

The evolution of health care quality metrics over the preceding decades illustrates an enduring commitment toward enhancing patient outcomes, refining the structure of health care delivery, and ...

Quality-of-life (QOL) measurement has a rich history in rheumatology, and although the study of health measurements has expanded remarkably in recent years, there are a number of methodological issues ...

The National Quality Forum (NQF) Measure Incubator provides a platform for the development of patient-reported outcome performance measures in palliative cancer care, which is essential to ...

To develop a core outcome set for Achilles tendinopathy (COS-AT) for use in clinical trials we performed a five-step process including (1) a systematic review of available outcome measurement ...

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 ...

Safety and Efficacy of Nivolumab in Brain Metastases From Renal Cell Carcinoma: Results of the GETUG-AFU 26 NIVOREN Multicenter Phase II Study The challenge of focusing only on erectile function is ...

Objectives To develop a core outcome set for lateral elbow tendinopathy (COS-LET) and to provide guidance for outcome evaluation in future studies. Methods We implemented a multi-stage mixed-methods ...

Final Results of the IELSG-19 Randomized Trial of Mucosa-Associated Lymphoid Tissue Lymphoma: Improved Event-Free and Progression-Free Survival With Rituximab Plus Chlorambucil Versus Either ...

Our research on nonprofit organizations has sought to develop a better understanding of this “actual activity.” This research has led us to conclude that standard outcome measurement models are ...