Patient-Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR) helps people and their caregivers communicate and make informed health care decisions.
This type of research is unique, as it adds in the patient and community voice when assessing the value of health care options.
PCOR answers questions such as:
︎︎︎ “Given my personal characteristics, conditions and preferences, what should I expect will happen to me?”
︎︎︎ “What are my options and what are the potential benefits and harms of those options?”
︎︎︎ “What can I do to improve the outcomes that are most important to me?”
︎︎︎ “How can clinicians and the health care system help me make the best decisions about my health and healthcare?”
︎︎︎ “What are my options and what are the potential benefits and harms of those options?”
︎︎︎ “What can I do to improve the outcomes that are most important to me?”
︎︎︎ “How can clinicians and the health care system help me make the best decisions about my health and healthcare?”
To answer these questions, PCOR
︎︎︎ Looks at the benefits and harms of all types of healthcare to inform decision-making.
︎︎︎ Focuses on outcomes that patients notice and care about most. These might include: physical or sexual function, severity of symptoms, mental health, satisfaction.
︎︎︎ Takes place in a wide variety of settings, with people from many different backgrounds and experiences.
︎︎︎ Identifies barriers to spreading best practices within the health care system.
︎︎︎ Looks at how to obtain best possible outcomes while addressing burden to individual people, availability of healthcare services, technology, and personnel, and perspectives of all the individuals involved in healthcare.
︎︎︎ Focuses on outcomes that patients notice and care about most. These might include: physical or sexual function, severity of symptoms, mental health, satisfaction.
︎︎︎ Takes place in a wide variety of settings, with people from many different backgrounds and experiences.
︎︎︎ Identifies barriers to spreading best practices within the health care system.
︎︎︎ Looks at how to obtain best possible outcomes while addressing burden to individual people, availability of healthcare services, technology, and personnel, and perspectives of all the individuals involved in healthcare.