describe two approaches or indicators to measuring patient outcomes

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1. Guest7244
   

   Two approaches through which patient outcomes can be measured are:
   
   1) Applying process management to occupational medicine – this process involves frequency and timing of patient visits, referral patterns for consultation and diagnostic testing.
   
   2) Communication: physician-employer-patient – when physicians takes the time to call their patient’s employers to report on the patient’s condition, (if after an initial visit, the case does not follow the expected course) or activity status, those physicians not only achieve better outcomes in terms of the amount of disability that their patients incur, they also find an increased degree of satisfaction from both patients and employers.

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2. Guest8895
   

   Measuring the performance of medical care continues to be an important yet one of the most  challenging part of clinical research, quality improvement, and more recently, as a possible mechanism for providing monetary incentives to practices. Various strategies for accomplishing this task have included examining process measures (eg, mammography rates), collecting objective patient data (eg, blood pressures), and obtaining subjective patient indicators (eg, patient satisfaction).

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