Finding What Matters Most to Patients - 9781032093895

Taylor & Francis

Finding What Matters Most to PatientsForming the Foundation for Better Care\nAuthor(s): Thom Walsh\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Productivity Press\nISBN-13: 9781032093895, 978-1032093895\nSynopsis\nResearch shows that the importance of patient-reported outcomes, improved decision support, and care coordination is growing rapidly as new payment models transform healthcare delivery. This has led to the use of new measures and communication techniques, including shared decision-making and motivational interviewing.\n\nUsing patient-reported outcomes at the point of service helps providers identify what matters most to the patient in front of them now. Describing treatment options and deciphering a patients preferences effectively is a process, which has been likened to arriving at a diagnosis. Providers make a medical diagnosis by discerning a patients primary complaints, past history, exam findings, and test results. A preference dia.