Health metrics

Landing page (from Population Health) for Health metrics:


 * Types of health outcomes
 * Mortality
 * All-cause
 * Disease-specific
 * Morbidity
 * Surrogate markers
 * Health-service use
 * Quality of life
 * Global QoL measure
 * Disease-specific QoL measure


 * Features of a good/useful health metric:
 * Reliable
 * Validity
 * Can be used to monitor change over time
 * Can be used to monitor change due to treatment
 * User-friendly


 * References on health metrics
 * Yudkin JS, Lipska KJ, Montori VM. The idolatry of the surrogate. BMJ 2011;343:d7995 doi: 10.1136/bmj.d7995
 * Porter ME. What is value in health care? N Engl J Med 2010, 363:2477-81. DOI:10.1056/NEJMp1011024
 * Bryant D, Fernandes N. Measuring patient outcomes: a primer. Injury 2011; 42: 232-35. DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2010.11.049
 * Parish RG. Measuring population health outcomes. Preventing Chronic Disease 2010; 7: 1-11.