I did some market research back in the day and there was a lot negative opinions on even attempting to measure performance based on patient outcomes because “each case is unique”.
To me there were two things at play: possibly the sample size of number of patients doctors see with the same problem might be too small and there was genuinely a lot of fear that the doctor’s skill could be boiled down to protocols and statistics.
I think the biggest hurdle toward improving patient outcomes will be alleviating the fear and then after that figuring out how to give better context to the data.
To me there were two things at play: possibly the sample size of number of patients doctors see with the same problem might be too small and there was genuinely a lot of fear that the doctor’s skill could be boiled down to protocols and statistics.
I think the biggest hurdle toward improving patient outcomes will be alleviating the fear and then after that figuring out how to give better context to the data.