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Registries for evaluating patient outcomes : a user's guide. Volume 2 by U.S. Agency for Health Care Research and Quality/AHRQ; Richard E. Gliklich; Nancy A. Dreyer; Michelle B. Leavy is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This User's Guide is intended to support the design, implementation, analysis, interpretation, and quality evaluation of registries created to increase understanding of patient outcomes. For the purposes of this guide, a patient registry is an organized system that uses observational study methods to collect uniform data (clinical and other) to evaluate specified outcomes for a population defined by a particular disease, condition, or exposure, and that serves one or more predetermined scientific, clinical, or policy purposes. A registry database is a file (or files) derived from the registry. Although registries can serve many purposes, this guide focuses on registries created for one or more of the following purposes: to describe the natural history of disease, to determine clinical effectiveness or cost-effectiveness of health care products and services, to measure or monitor safety and harm, and/or to measure quality of care. Registries are classified according to how their populations are defined. For example, product registries include patients who have been exposed to biopharmaceutical products or medical devices. Health services registries consist of patients who have had a

Who reads Registries for evaluating patient outcomes : a user's guide. Volume 2?

Author

U.S. Agency for Health Care Research and Quality/AHRQ; Richard E. Gliklich; Nancy A. Dreyer; Michelle B. Leavy

Publisher

United States Government Printing Office

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781587634345

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Medical, Social Science, Medicine