About Us
Our Mission
The overarching goal of the Health Outcomes Collaboration (HOC) is to improve the health outcomes of patients and the experience of care they receive from their health care treatments. To assess this it may involve health practitioners and health services using health outcome-related clinical indicators and performance measures but it may also include the use of clinical rating scales and patient reported outcomes and experience measures (PROMs and PREMs). The Health Outcomes Collaboration provides consultancy advice to health practitioners, health services and systems concerning the selection and use of these health outcome measures. We also provide training workshops concerning the health outcomes approach.
Health Outcomes Assessment and Evaluation
If we do not systematically measure and research the health outcomes of our patients and clients we cannot tell whether our treatments and healthcare have had a positive effect. Although a treatment such as surgery may have improved a person's survival there may be other effects on their health-related quality of life or health status which might be important to assess to facilitate their recovery. We need to assess this from the patient's perspective (patient reported outcomes) as well as the system, service or clinical perspectives. Monitoring and measuring patient health outcomes can identify many ways to improve the quality of health care.
Patient Experience and Health Outcomes
There are a myriad of measures to assess patient reported health outcomes and experience. What criteria do we use to assess whether this is the best measure to assess the outcomes for our particular application? The Health Outcomes Collaboration can provide advice and assist you with these tasks.