Person-Centered Outcome Metrology: Principles and Applications for High Stakes Decision Making

This unique collection of chapters from world experts on person-centered outcome (PCO) measures addresses the critical questions of whether individual experiences can be represented in measurements that do not reduce unique differences to meaningless uniformity, how person-centric PCO measures are, whether they are capable of delivering the kind of quality-assured quantification required for high-stakes decision-making, whether they are likely to support improved healthcare delivery, and whether pivotal clinical studies have failed to deliver treatments for diseases due to shortcomings in the PCO measures used. Three key issues form an urgent basis for further investigation: the increasing use of PCO measures as the central dependent variables upon which high-stakes decisions are made, the lessons to be learned from those who have built and established the science over many decades, and the goal of making a PCO measurement to inform outcome management.

Format: Hardback
Length: 402 pages
Publication date: 03 December 2022
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG

This comprehensive collection of chapters, penned by esteemed experts in the field of person-centered outcome (PCO) measures, delves into critical questions that are of utmost importance. It seeks to address the following pressing concerns:

Can individual experiences be accurately captured in measurements that do not compromise unique differences and render them meaningless uniformity?

To what extent are person-centered outcome (PCO) measures truly person-centric?

Are PCO measures capable of providing the precise and meaningful quantification necessary for high-stakes decision-making?

Can PCO measures contribute to improved healthcare delivery?

Have pivotal clinical studies failed to yield effective treatments for diseases due to limitations in the PCO measures employed?

Are these limitations primarily related to precision and meaningfulness, or is the absence of common languages for communicating outcomes also hindering quality improvement, research, and the healthcare economy?

Three key issues demand immediate attention and further investigation. Firstly, the increasing reliance on PCO measures as the primary dependent variables for high-stakes decisions underscores the need for higher quality information in scale and test construction, evaluation, selection, and interpretation.

Secondly, the field of PCO measurement has valuable lessons to be drawn from those who have cultivated and established this science over many decades.

Lastly, the primary objective of making a PCO measurement is to inform outcome management. As such, it is essential for key stakeholders to understand that advancements in psychometrics have redirected measurement toward illuminating clinically significant individual differences within the context of widely replicated patterns of variation in health and functioning, comparable scale values for quality improvement, and practical applications.

Weight: 787g
Dimension: 235 x 155 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783031074646
Edition number: 1st ed. 2023