Abstract
With the Indian patient becoming more empowered with regards to his disease and its treatment options, many Indian physicians still depend only on disease-related outcome measures to take health-care related decisions, and give minimal importance to patient-centered outcomes pertaining to the effect of the healthcare interventions on the patient's well-being. Thus, objective lab values and physician intuition are given more importance than the subjective feeling of well-being that the patient is experiencing following the introduction of the intervention. This review presents a concept of integrating patient-centered and patient-reported data with the existing disease-centered and doctor-reported data for making healthcare-related decisions. This concept, termed patient-centered outcomes research, has already become popular in the Western World.
Highlights
The treating physician can be seen as a learned vendor who arrives at a diagnosis in his client having a definite set of symptoms and offers him various products to ameliorate the health condition
While a balanced approach is the best suited, we find that an increasing emphasis is given to the objective proof of therapeutic effect
Patient-centered outcome research stresses the importance of research informed by the perspectives, interests and values of patients throughout the research process
Summary
Founder and CEO MarksMan Healthcare Solutions, HEOR and RWE Consulting, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, 1Department of Pharmacology, Velammal Medical College Hospital and Research Institute, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India.
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