Background:
Outcomes research evaluates the effect of health care interventions on patient-related clinical, patient reported, and economic outcomes. Outcomes research is based on the conceptual framework that evaluation of treatment alternatives involves the simultaneous assessment of multiple types of disease-related outcomes. These outcomes reflect patient experiences and are of interest to all health care decision makers—patients, health care organizations, providers and payers. It is important to design outcomes research studies which provide valuable information for health care decisions and to promote the use of outcomes research in evidence-based health care decisions.
It is increasingly important to consider all perspectives in health care decisions-patient, society, provider and payer. It is also important to recognize that, in many cases, the provision of health care is actually the management of a person’s health. In addition, the risks and benefits of health care interventions must be considered in health care decisions.
With these considerations, the ISPOR Health Care Decisions Using Outcomes Research Special Interest Group includes the following Working Groups: |
