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Measuring the Effects of Social Risks on Patient Health Outcomes — A PCORnet® Study

Year: 2021
Type: report
Abstract: What was the project about?Quality measures assess how well healthcare providers deliver care.Examples of these measures include patient health outcomes like blood sugar control or how often patients go to the emergency room, or ER.These measures usually take into account how sick patients are by looking at how many health conditions a patient has and how severe they are. How can people use the results?Health systems can include data on social risks to improve how well measures assess quality of care.To learn more about this project, visit www.pcori.org/SearsCottrell371.The PCORnet ® Study reported in this results summary was conducted using PCORnet ® , the National Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network.PCORnet ® is intended to improve the nation's capacity to conduct health research, particularly comparative effectiveness research (CER), efficiently by creating a large, highly representative network for conducting clinical outcomes research.PCORnet ® has been developed with funding from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute ® (PCORI ® ).
Institution: Ochin
Language: English
Subfield: Health
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W3190243272
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