Development of an International Standard Set of Value-Based Outcome Measures for Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease: A Report of the International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM) CKD Working Group

Publication date: Available online 20 December 2018Source: American Journal of Kidney DiseasesAuthor(s): Wouter R. Verberne, Zofia Das-Gupta, Andrew S. Allegretti, Hans A.J. Bart, Wim van Biesen, Guillermo García-García, Elizabeth Gibbons, Eduardo Parra, Marc H. Hemmelder, Kitty J. Jager, Markus Ketteler, Charlotte Roberts, Muhamed Al Rohani, Matthew J. Salt, Andrea Stopper, Türkan Terkivatan, Katherine R. Tuttle, Chih-Wei Yang, David C. Wheeler, Willem Jan W. BosValue-based health care is increasingly promoted as a strategy for improving care quality by benchmarking outcomes that matter to patients relative to the cost of obtaining those outcomes. To support the shift toward value-based health care in chronic kidney disease (CKD), the International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM) assembled an international working group of health professionals and patient representatives to develop a standardized minimum set of patient-centered outcomes targeted for clinical use. The considered outcomes and patient-reported outcome measures were generated from systematic literature reviews. Feedback was sought from patients and health professionals. Patients with very high-risk CKD (stages G3a/A3 and G3b/A2-G5, including dialysis, kidney transplantation, and conservative care) were selected as the target population. Using an online modified Delphi process, outcomes important to all patients were selected, such as survival and hospitalization, and to treatment-specific s...
Source: American Journal of Kidney Diseases - Category: Urology & Nephrology Source Type: research