Using Patient-Reported Information to Improve Health Outcomes and Health Care Value: Case Studies from Dartmouth, Karolinska and Group Health

This report helps you discover the ways that patient-reported information can be used to provide higher quality care to reduce the burden of illness, prevent disease, and promote better relationships between patients and doctors. Today, we find that for patients to recover faster and improve their health, it is essential that the clinician has clear and accurate pictures of how the patients are feeling, how they are limited because of their health, how they are suffering, and what their expectations are of their doctors. In addition, we want our doctors not only to reduce the burden of illness but also to help the patient avoid illness, prevent disease, and promote health. Therefore, we want to make it easier for patients to partner with their health teams to avoid illness and injury, and to make it possible to live longer and healthier lives. This requires good communication. We have seen that it is possible by transforming the voice of the patient into information that is meaningful and actionable.