MONITORING HEALTHCARE CHANGES

Monitoring Healthcare Changes

Monitoring Healthcare Changes

Being a member of team, which assigned the task of monitoring healthcare changes, I would like to mention that one of the important developments in the healthcare field has been the recognition of the centrality of the patient's point of view in monitoring the quality of healthcare outcomes. Thus, health monitoring, or the use of standardized procedures that quantify an individual's health, should in most cases include measurements of the person's subjective feelings of health, behavioural functioning, and well-being (HrQL) (Ware, 2008). Subjective health assessments often complement objective measurements and contribute to develop a more ...