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The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute ( PCORI) is a United States–based non-profit institute created through the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. It is a government-sponsored organization charged with funding Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) that assists consumers, clinicians, purchasers, and policymakers to ...
In health care, person-centered care is a practice in which patients actively participate in their own medical treatment in close cooperation with their health professionals. Sometimes, relatives may be involved in the creation of the patient’s health plan. [ 1] The person-centered model of health care is used both for in and outpatient ...
Clinical peer review. Clinical peer review, also known as medical peer review is the process by which health care professionals, including those in nursing and pharmacy, evaluate each other's clinical performance. [1] [2] A discipline-specific process may be referenced accordingly (e.g., physician peer review, nursing peer review ).
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) is a United States Government funded research institute that funds studies that compare healthcare options to find out what options and situations work best for patients of different circumstances. PCORI uses their research to increase the quality of healthcare and push the healthcare ...
Evidence-based medicine ( EBM) is "the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients. ... [It] means integrating individual clinical expertise with the best available external clinical evidence from systematic research." [ 1] The aim of EBM is to integrate the ...
Medical home. The medical home, [1] also known as the patient-centered medical home ( PCMH ), is a team-based health care delivery model led by a health care provider [2] to provide comprehensive and continuous medical care to patients with a goal to obtain maximal health outcomes. [3] [4] It is described in the "Joint Principles" (see below ...
Health care quality is a level of value provided by any health care resource, as determined by some measurement. [ 1] As with quality in other fields, it is an assessment of whether something is good enough and whether it is suitable for its purpose. The goal of health care is to provide medical resources of high quality to all who need them ...
Online access. The Patient: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research is a quarterly peer-reviewed medical journal dedicated to presenting solely the patient's perspective. The journal was published by Adis in collaboration with the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.