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Methodology for Establishing a Community-Wide Life Laboratory for Capturing Unobtrusive and Continuous Remote Activity and Health Data
Published on: July 27, 2018
Advancing the science of population-based measures of home-time
Courtney Harold Van Houtven1, Valerie A Smith2, Nina R Sperber3
1Durham VA Health Care System, Durham, NC; 508 Fulton Street (152), Durham, NC, 27705, USA; Duke University School of Medicine, Department of Population Health Sciences, Durham, NC, USA; Duke University, Margolis Center for Health Policy, Durham, NC, USA.
Abstract:
The "home time" measure is gaining appeal in evaluating outcomes for multiple patient populations including post-surgery or intervention and the last 6 months of life. Advancing the science of home time measures will require obtaining the perspectives of patients and caregivers to arrive at a population-based measure of quality of life. Additionally, measure development requires considerations of what care settings denote time away from home, observation period, and thresholds that are clinically significant. We explore examples and challenges from current research and our own experience. Being able to advance such measures could also inform payment models and policy design.
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