How to Measure Health Outcomes
A Hands-On Guide to Getting Started

Simple and practical steps for health care professionals who want to start measuring the health outcomes that matter most.

Kathleen E. Carberry (Author)

9781009240932, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 11 May 2023

100 pages
18.9 x 11.9 x 0.5 cm, 0.09 kg

'Anyone getting started in value-based healthcare transformation should read this Guide. It pragmatically addresses the potentially daunting aspects of outcome measurement and empowers practitioners by clearly demystifying and describing each step. Its applicability to various health contexts is particularly useful to both local and international VBHC leaders.' Eva Villalba, M.B.A., M.Sc. Healthcare Transformation, VBHC Green Belt Founder and Principal Associate, Expertise Valeur en Santé, Canada

Complementing existing literature on measuring health outcomes that is largely conceptual, this book focuses on simple, practical advice for measuring outcomes in a variety of settings. Written in an engaging conversational tone, readers will learn why measuring health outcomes is necessary in clinical practice and how these measures may vary between people and across care structures. Covering how to identify measurements as well as collect and analyze the data, the chapters lead readers through a series of logical steps to scaling up a measurement program. The workbook style allows readers to record their own notes and thoughts throughout the book, while the list of action steps at the end of chapters are tangible starting points for developing a measurement program of their own. Explores how to measure and think about outcomes in a way that sees the whole person, not just the medical or behavioral condition they have.

1. Measuring the outcomes of health care
2. Why measure outcomes?
3. Where to start
4. Identifying outcome measures
5. Collecting and analyzing outcome data
6. Scaling outcome measurement
7. Now the journey begins.

Subject Areas: Epidemiology & medical statistics [MBNS]