How Does Health Policy Impact Me?

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Value Assessments From Patient and Provider Perspectives

Value assessments are being used by healthcare policymakers to gather information to drive collaborative research and partnerships toward positive changes . It ’ s important to gather information from patients and healthcare providers to ensure that different perspectives are captured for analysis . The factors that are evaluated in clinical trials and the number of factors are key to the success of drug treatments that become approved from clinical trials . Clinical trial designs that fall short in accounting for enough potential patient situations will set themselves up to fail certain patients . Healthcare access is another area of value assessment that can benefit from patient and provider perspectives . By taking action on patient requests , healthcare providers can reach more patients and diagnose patient conditions sooner compared to patients who were previously going unserved or underserved .

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