MedCity News reports:
Just 18 percent of hospitals always consult patient-reported outcomes when making clinical decisions and setting care guidelines, according to a survey of hospital executives, conducted by Salt Lake City-based analytics firm Health Catalyst. Still, that is a higher rate than some expected.
“Patient-reported outcomes seem to be the next horizon in quality reporting and scoring. To date, reports on outcomes and patient safety have mostly indicated whether a hospital has harmed individuals, not how patients perceive care or whether treatment improved their quality of life.”
“That is changing. Notably, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services already incorporates patient-reported outcomes into its value-based payment program for knee and hip replacements, though reporting is voluntary for now. But the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), which is scheduled to take effect in 2019, will consider patient-reported outcomes in the calculation of Medicare payments to physicians.”
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