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Clinical outcome

Meaning in healthcare management, with examples

nounCommon term

In healthcare management, clinical outcome means: The effect of care on a patient's health, such as recovery, complications, quality of life or death, used to judge how well a treatment or service works.

In Turkish: klinik sonuç, tedavi sonucu

How it is used

Usually plural. Managers report outcomes such as mortality, complication and readmission rates, often 'risk-adjusted' to allow for how ill the patients were. Outcome measures are read together with process measures, which show whether the right steps were taken.

Example sentences

  1. Clinical outcomes for knee surgery at our hospital are among the best in the region.

  2. Faster treatment led to better clinical outcomes for stroke patients.

Common collocations

  • improve clinical outcomes
  • risk-adjusted outcomes
  • outcome measures
  • patient outcomes
  • value-based careA way of organising and paying for healthcare that rewards providers for the health results they achieve for patients relative to cost, not for the number of services.
  • readmissionA patient's return to hospital as an inpatient soon after discharge, often within 30 days, which may point to problems with care or with the discharge.
  • benchmarkA standard or result, often from other hospitals or national data, that you compare your own performance with.
  • quality improvementA planned, continuous effort to make care safer, more effective and more efficient by measuring results, testing changes and learning from them.

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