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Podcast: Relentless Health Value
Episode: EP254: How to Achieve Outcomes That Matter to Patients, With Nadine Jackson McCleary, MD, MPH, BSN
Description: Everybody knows about evidence-based medicine, especially evidence-based medicine around the use of pharmaceuticals—and especially in oncology. Provider and payer organizations, many of them, strive to standardize care pathways around that evidence-based medicine. Here is the thing: I've heard it said that doctors and patients at the point of care are not particularly interested in evidence-based medicine. What they want right then is medicine-based evidence: If this patient takes this medicine, what will the outcome be? Is there a name for this medicine-based evidence? Why, yes there is! It's otherwise known as patient-reported outcomes, or PROs. And th...