I am having trouble with finding two approaches or indicators to measuring patient outcomes. I thought one might be the variation, but I am unsure. Can you help?

Answer 1

I don't know how variation is an approach to measuring patient outcomes. The two basic ways I know of are by medical-scientific tests and by the patient's own perception of his/her health.

Check these sites for more information.

http://www.managedcaremag.com/archives/9904/9904.patsatis.html

http://www.jabfm.org/cgi/content/full/20/1/1

http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/full/hlthaff.var.133/DC2