Current Issue February 2012, Vol. 3, No. 1

Issue Highlights

  • The Rise of Patient-Centered Outcomes Research
    February 2012 (Vol. 3 | No. 1 | Pages e1-e2)

    Rachael Fleurence

  • Who Will Take Care of Us? Exploring Differences in Respondents’ Satisfaction with Primary Care vs Specialty Care Physicians
    February 2012 (Vol. 3 | No. 1 | Pages e3-e10)

    Michael Adolph, Jun Wu, Steven R. Feldman, Rajesh Balkrishnan

  • The Quality-of-Life Impact of Head and Neck Cancer: Preference Values from the Canadian General Public
    February 2012 (Vol. 3 | No. 1 | Pages e11-e23)

    Shelagh M. Szabo, Rosie L. Dobson, Bonnie M.K. Donato, Gil L’Italien, Sebastien J. Hotte, Adrian R. Levy

  • The Ends Justify the Mean: Outcome Measures for Estimating the Value of New Cancer Therapies
    February 2012 (Vol. 3 | No. 1 | Pages e25-e36)

    Andrew Davies, Andrew Briggs, John Schneider, Adrian Levy, Omar Ebeid, Samuel Wagner, Srividya Kotapati, Scott Ramsey

  • Health Outcomes of Interest in Observational Data: Issues in Identifying Definitions in the Literature
    February 2012 (Vol. 3 | No. 1 | Pages e37-e44)

    Paul E. Stang, Patrick B. Ryan, Stacie B. Dusetzina, Abraham G. Hartzema, Christian Reich, J. Marc Overhage, Judith A. Racoosin

  • Health Care Utilization and Costs in Patients with Generalized Anxiety Disorder Initiating Add-on Therapy with Benzodiazepines
    February 2012 (Vol. 3 | No. 1 | Pages e45-e54)

    Ariel Berger, John Edelsberg, Vamsi Bollu, Jose Ma. J. Alvir, Ashish Dugar, Ashish V. Joshi, Gerry Oster

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Health outcomes in research is knowing not only what quality of health care can be achieved, but how it can be accomplished. Health Outcomes Research in Medicine is committed to providing editorial content that advances research and medicine by bridging patient reported outcomes with clinical practice decisions that are solidly evidenced-based.
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Dr. Donald Stull, PhD, Editor-in-Chief, offers his perspective: "My goal for this journal is to publish and encourage research that includes patient-reported and clinical outcomes that enhance our understanding of health, lead to improvements in medical care, and provide an evidence-based platform for making decisions about allocating scarce resources."
Olivier Chassany, MD, PhD, Associate Editor for Health Outcomes Research, is currently working as Medical leader of the Clinical Research and Development Department of Assistance Publique - Hopitaux de Paris. This Department is the institutional sponsor for all Parisian University Hospitals. Dr. Chassany is Professor in Medicine, teaching therapeutics, ethics, methodology of clinical research, and about patient-reported outcomes at the University Denis-Diderot Paris 7. A gastroenterologist by training, his research is focused on patient-reported outcomes. He has developed and validated several questionnaires in gastroenterology, pulmonary disease, HIV, and nutrition fields. He has been involved with the EU and US regulators in the elaboration and writing of regulatory guidances on patient-reported outcomes and health-related quality of life. For more information on the editorial vision for this section, click here.
John M. Kirkwood, MD, Associate Editor for Clinical Outcomes Research, has published extensively in translational medicine, focusing upon the molecular immunology and biology of melanoma and other refractory solid tumors. He is Professor of Medicine and Dermatology and Vice Chairman for Clinical Research in the Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and Director of the Melanoma and Skin Cancer Program of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute. For more information on the editorial vision for this section, click here.
Rachael Fleurence, PhD, Associate Editor for Health Policy and Comparative Effectiveness, has published extensively in comparative effectiveness research, mixed-treatment comparisons, cost-effectiveness analysis, and health technology assessment and is currently a Director for the US office of Oxford Outcomes, an ICON plc company. For more information on the editorial vision for this section, click here.

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