Health Affairs Forefront: Person-Driven Outcome Measures Help Achieve Equitable Outcomes
Heath Affairs Forefront has published an article, "Person-Driven
Outcome Measures Help Achieve Equitable Outcomes," by The SCAN Foundation President and CEO Sarita Mohanty, MD, MPH, MBA, and JAHF President Terry Fulmer, PhD, RN, FAAN.
Health care quality measures typically are not linked to what matters most to patients and are often inadequate to achieve true person-centered care—care based on and guided by a person’s values and preferences. Person-driven outcome measures that are established through consultation between a patient and the patient’s care team represent a new paradigm and gauge quality by whether the care helps a person move toward or accomplish the goals they identify as important.
The SCAN Foundation and JAHF have supported the development and piloting of person-driven outcome measures with the National Committee for Quality Assurance, with early data showing them to be feasible and effective. This Forefront article describes the benefits of the new measurement approach, challenges and three steps for making these age-friendly measures a reality.
Read the Health Affairs Forefront article.
Learn about JAHF's co-funding of this work.
