Prevention Institute: How Can We Pay for a Healthy Population?

This issue brief from the Prevention Institute describes strategies to integrate funding for population health improvement within other health care Continue reading →

Massachusetts Prevention and Wellness Trust Annual Report for 2014

This is the 2014 annual report from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health Prevention and Wellness Trust.  The Prevention and Continue reading →

National Quality Forum: Patient-Reported Outcome Measures for Healthcare Accountable Entities

The National Quality Forum (NQF) commissioned two background papers to inform its work on patient-reported outcome performance measures (PRO-PMs). The second Continue reading →

National Quality Forum: Methodological Issues for Patient-Reported Outcome Performance Measures

The National Quality Forum (NQF) commissioned two background papers to inform its work on patient-reported outcome performance measures (PRO-PMs). This first paper Continue reading →

National Quality Forum: Patient-Reported Outcomes for Performance Measurement

The National Quality Forum (NQF) published this paper in 2013 regarding the use patient-reported outcomes (PROs) for health care performance measurement. Continue reading →

Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute: Methodology Standards

These are the methodology standards published by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute for its patient-centered outcomes research. The standards describe Continue reading →

Food and Drug Administration: Guidance for Industry on Patient-Reported Outcome Measures

This Guidance for Industry was issued by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2009 regarding the appropriate use Continue reading →

National Institutes of Health: Patient-Reported Outcomes in Comparative Effectiveness Research

The National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Health Care Systems Research Collaboratory has several resources on the use of patient-reported outcomes Continue reading →