| Value Model
1. Measure value: outcomes and costs
How can you improve something unless it is measured?
2. Identify opportunities for improvement
Large variation in provider performance signals an opportunity for improvement.
Severity of illness adjustment must be used to modify outcomes.
3. Empower improvement towards best evidence practices and monitoring
clinical outcomes. Provide guidance on how to develop best practice outcomes.
4. Track improvements over time to quantify patient response to care, to
establish evidence and data to access patients, we employ a valid and credible scientific
measurement. Outcome measures are the universal language for communicating
the effectiveness of spinal care.
Patients: good clinical outcomes represent their highest hopes for medical interventions
Health care professionals: good clinical outcomes are the desired end-point of
treatment and care plans
The Pain Diagram Questionnaire (PDQ) rates questions that deal with pain, function, activities of daily living and psychological issues. PDQ was first published in Spine in 2004.
This information helps to establish the medical necessity of healthcare and enhances patient
monitoring of progress & improves clinical decision-making, detects
maximum therapeutic recovery, provides a rationale for ongoing treatment,
detects failure to respond to treatment, establishes credibility, and
positions the doctor to gain additional market share.
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