The relationship among patient reported outcome measure scores with health care costs and inpatient admission: results from Utah mEVAL and value driven outcomes
Poor physical function scores were associated with an increased risk of hospitalization and higher inpatient health costs, while poor depression scores were only associated with increased risk of hospitalization. Future work should examine if improvement in these PROMs alters these metrics.
Authors
- Rachel Hess (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2545-8504)
- Haojia Li (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1295-4341)
- Yue Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7185-4263)
- Rachel Kroencke (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2232-7293)
- Zoe Gombart
Institutions
- Kaiser Permanente (US)
- University of Utah (US)
- Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes
- Published
- 2025-05-19
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s41687-025-00889-y
- Primary Topic
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00