Health span or life span: the role of patient-reported outcomes in informing health policy

Objectives: Population ageing and the increasing burden of chronic conditions challenge traditional metrics of assessing the efficacy of health care interventions and as a consequence policy and planning. Using chronic heart failure (CHF) as an exemplar this manuscript seeks to describe the import...

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Main Authors: Chang, Sungwon, Gholizadeh, L., Salamonson, Y., Digiacomo, Michelle, Betihavas, Vasiliki, Davidson, Patricia
Format: Journal Article
Published: Elsevier Ireland Ltd 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/30793