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AHA 210 - Outcomes Measurement and Management
Health care providers constantly gather data to reach diagnostic conclusions and guide a patient through a treatment course that will optimize the eventual outcome. The driving forces of health care economics mandate that practitioners monitor and evaluate clinical effectiveness as well as the performance of the health care organization. This course addresses measurement as a basis for making judgments and decisions about outcomes as well as measurement as a basis for future improvements. The results of outcomes and their interest to providers, accrediting bodies, purchasers and users of providers’ services are used both to stimulate contemporary thinking about important dimensions of outcomes measurement as well as the design of patient-centered frameworks for managing and improving care and services.
Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to:
- Apply the concepts and methods of outcomes measurement.
- Identify the benefits and barriers to measurement of outcomes.
- Relate the interconnected processes that affect patient health outcomes.
- Describe current techniques is assessing clinical and organizational effectiveness.
Prerequisite: Philosophy of Managed Care (AHA 209)
3 hours each week or weekend format 3 credits