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Area of Science:

  • Healthcare Management
  • Health Services Research
  • Patient Experience Measurement

Background:

  • Canadian healthcare is transitioning to integrated care models.
  • Current performance indicators are hospital-centric and neglect the patient journey.
  • Existing metrics fail to capture the true patient and caregiver experience within the healthcare system.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To advocate for a shift from measuring system activity to measuring patient and caregiver burden in integrated care.
  • To propose novel metrics for evaluating the patient and family experience in healthcare.
  • To align healthcare performance measurement with the goals of population health.

Main Methods:

  • Literature review and conceptual framework development based on integrated care principles.
  • Proposal of three new metrics: System Friction Ratio, Caregiver Latency Index, and Patient-Reported Burden Score.
  • Argument for a paradigm shift in healthcare performance measurement.

Main Results:

  • Identified a critical gap in current healthcare metrics for integrated care.
  • Proposed three innovative metrics designed to quantify patient and caregiver burden.
  • Established a theoretical foundation for patient-centric performance measurement.

Conclusions:

  • Current hospital-centric metrics are insufficient for evaluating integrated care and population health.
  • Measuring patient and caregiver burden offers a more accurate assessment of healthcare system performance.
  • Adoption of proposed metrics can lead to a more patient-centered and effective healthcare system.