Patients with asthma give doctors their thoughts on treatment goals

(Society for Academic Emergency Medicine) There is increasing emphasis on the importance of measuring patient-centered outcomes of emergency care; however, the existing and most commonly used discharge metrics, which were developed outside of the emergency department setting, have limited applicability to emergency care and fail to capture the concepts that are most important to patients and families.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news