Assessing Whole-Person Outcomes During Routine Clinical Care: A Rapid Scoping Review.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To identify and describe research conducted on the implementation, validity, and utility of whole-person outcome measures administered during routine inpatient or outpatient care.

Background

Incorporating information about patients' overall health, health-related quality of life, and global well-being into health care delivery has the potential to increase referral rates, enhance doctor-patient communication, and improve the detection of untreated symptoms. Assessment of these whole-person outcomes during routine clinical care is of broad interest to health care providers and health systems.

Methods

We employed a scoping review design and searched Ovid MEDLINE, APA PsycINFO, and CINAHL for relevant English-language primary studies and systematic reviews publ

SUBMITTER: Parr NJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11548827 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature