A common concern is how to identify a reasonably small set of validated measures to use for improvement efforts and against which to benchmark.
The International Consortium of Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM) is a not-for-profit organization founded by The Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness at the Harvard Business School, the Boston Consulting Group, and the Karolinska Institute to accelerate use of patient outcome measurement in health care. ICHOM convenes an international panel of patients and physicians to develop standard patient outcome measurement sets from previously validated instruments across the spectrum of patient conditions.1 This collaborative process allows for the identification of measure sets that can be used for improvement efforts and for benchmarking without getting lost in too many potential measures.
ICHOM aims to create “Standard Sets” of outcome measurement for over 50% of the global disease burden by 2017. As of October 2016, they had completed 20 Standard Sets, which they calculate to account for approximately 47% of the global disease burden.2
For example, consider heart disease, from which Ms. Jones has recently been suffering.
“The ICHOM Standard Set for Coronary Artery Disease is the result of hard work by a group of leading physicians, measurement experts and patients. It is [their] recommendation of the outcomes that matter most to persons diagnosed with Coronary Artery Disease.”3
© 2015 ICHOM. http://www.ichom.org/medical-conditions/coronary-artery-disease/
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