For example, a cancer care initiative in Staffordshire, where Macmillan Cancer Support is working "hand in glove" with all but one of the CCGs and the local commissioning support unit (CSU) is setting clear outcomes, informed by what patients want, as a way of getting innovative and responsive services.
Manual muscle testing and perineometry as outcomes informed by the clinician were assessed.
This understanding of outcome is informed by the WHO definition of health [ 1], including its definition of palliative care which states: 'Palliative care is an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problem associated with life-threatening illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering' [ 2- 4].
The models predicted that the wound healing outcomes as informed by the mediator trajectories would be dramatically different given variations in the initial mediator profile, presumably due to some combination of pre-existing vocal fold conditions and the treatment prescribed following phonotrauma.
The intervention and its outcomes are informed by self-determination theory and principles of patient-centered communication.
Effect sizes for primary outcome measures were informed by the literature and agreed by study site clinicians.
Since the 1990s, many sectors of the UK NHS have adopted change management models and tools to improve service outcomes, more often informed by theories developed in industry [ 19], including Total Quality Management (TQM), Lean Thinking, Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) and Six Sigma [ 20].
When framed in the present context, the question of whether or not these are suitable modalities for improving health outcomes, must be informed by the particular social and behavioral health context at several levels, i.e., country-level down to patient-level.
No correlation was found between outcomes of quality of life reported by the patients and outcomes of functional capacity informed by the physiotherapist.
They identified educational topics for an outcome-based CME program in rational prescribing informed by the list of outcomes and outcome indicators that were developed from the second Delphi round.
Note that our focus here is on outcomes that will be informed by cross-site or multi-site data.
