The Patient: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Patient: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research
Discipline medical journal
Language English
Publication details
Publisher Adis Data Information BV (USA)
Publication history 2008
Indexing
ISSN 1178-1653
Links

The Patient: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research is an international quarterly medical journal dedicated to presenting solely the patient's perspective. The quarterly journal is a joint venture between Wolters Kluwer Health | Adis and the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHSPH). The first issue of this journal was published in 2008.

The journal aims to examine the needs, values and roles of patients in an increasingly complex healthcare landscape in which funding and decision making are requiring ever-greater awareness of the patient's perspective. "The Patient" seeks to be an international forum devoted to publishing research on patient-centered medicine. It seeks to address the growing concern that modern medicine has failed to adequately satisfy the needs of its most important stakeholder, the patient

According to the journal[1] every issue will take into account the needs of key groups in this discipline, making it essential reading for:

  1. Formulary managers
  2. Healthcare providers and institutions
  3. Healthcare policy & decision makers
  4. Executives in managed care and health maintenance organizations
  5. Employers and other healthcare payors
  6. Executives in pharmaceutical companies and Pharmacoeconomic academics

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Journal Information

[edit] External links

This medical article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.