A Program Designed to Improve Patient Experience + Quality + Care Full press release follows, originally posted on GLOBE...
Patient Reported Outcomes
Paul Bruning on Building Clinical Pathways around MCID & PROs
"Patient-Reported Outcomes (PROs) provide essential insights into quality of surgical intervention. Challenges remain in how...
MD Anderson’s Symptom Inventory (MDASI)
MD Anderson Symptom Inventory (MDASI) The MD Anderson Symptom Inventory (MDASI) is a multi-symptom patient-reported outcome...
Atrial Fibrillation Effect on Quality-of-Life Questionnaire (AFEQT)
AFEQT Questionnaire The Atrial Fibrillation Effect on Quality-of-life Questionnaire (AFEQT) evaluates symptoms, daily...
What the Heck is the Minimum Clinically Important Difference (MCID)?!?!
Minimum Clinically Important Difference (MCID) The minimum clinically important difference (MCID) may provide a simple and...
Japanese Orthopedic Association Back & Neck Questionnaire
In 1986, the Japanese Orthopaedic Association (JOA) developed the original version of this tool, which was used to measure both...
Visual Analog Scale – PRO Tools
Overview/History The Visual Analog Scale (VAS) is one of the four (4) pain measurement scales alongside the Numerical Rating...
Anji Kingman on Her Role As a Clinical Outcomes Facilitator
A Note From CODE: We are pleased to welcome Anji Kingman, Clinical Outcomes Facilitator, to the blog. Anji has worked in...
Paul Bruning on Why Executives Should Care About Patient-Reported Outcomes
A Note From CODE: We are pleased to welcome Paul Bruning, Executive Director of Orthopedics, and a member of AAOE. Read Paul's...
CODE Collects Patient-Reported Outcome Data as a Service. What does that mean?
CODE is Unique Admittedly, here at CODE we had an ah-ha moment last year as it relates to our business model. We realized we do...
How to Determine if Patient-Reported Outcome Data will Impact CJR Payments at Your Hospital
Guest Blog: This blog is published as a collaboration between Jonathan W. Pearce, CPA, MBA, FHFMA, Founding Principal of...
Regions Hospital Becomes First Level-1 Academic Trauma Center to Collect Patient-Reported Outcomes 100% Out-of-Clinic
Celebrating a New Partnership with Regions Hospital Orthopaedic Trauma Center CODE is proud to announce the partnership with...