Patient-Centered Measurement: Ethics, Epistemology, and Dialogue in Contemporary Medicine

Contemporary medicine is Janus-faced. Evidence-based medicine is one face of it, emphasizing evidence, statistics, and method. Patient-centered care is the other, prioritizing patient experiences, judgment, and values. Government agencies, policymakers, major insurers, and clinicians have sought ways to bring these faces together. This book is about one such approach, patient-centered measurement. Patient-centered measurement is the idea that patient perspectives on, for instance, physical functioning or quality of life, should play an evidentiary role in determining how effective a drug is taken to be, the degree to which a hospital provides good-quality care, or whether a particular intervention should be funded by an insurer.

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