Dr. Gartsman Article RSS http://www.drgartsman.com Dr. Gartsman Article RSS feed. . Dr. Gartsman http://www.drgartsman.com/tresources/en/images/icons/tendenci34x15.gif http://www.drgartsman.com no Copyright 2005, Dr. Gartsman Tendenci Membership Management Software by Schipul - The Web Marketing Company en-us noemail@drgartsman.com Wed, 08 Sep 2010 23:55:38 GMT Articles http://www.drgartsman.com/en/art/21/ <span class="body_copy">Until recently, few investigators challenged the pre-vailing medical view of health. Medicine perceived health as an observable, biologic fact, and the goal of medical assessment was to objectively evaluate the body&rsquo;s status. Because patient reports of health status are subjective, they were considered unreliable and unscientific. The use of self-reports to evaluate health and health outcomes, however, has burgeoned in the last 10 to 20 years, as has the authority assigned to patients&rsquo; evaluations. Sullivan 14 described this move toward a &ldquo;new subjective medicine&rdquo; as a change in medicine&rsquo;s focus from patients&rsquo; bodies to patients&rsquo; lives. In the current milieu, self-reported perceptions of health, function, and health-related quality of life (of-ten called patient-centered outcomes) are prominent. These outcomes have authority not in spite of their subjectivity but because of their subjectivity. The inter-est of health policy agents and third-party insurers in health care value and cost-effectiveness may have been at the root of the shift toward patient-centered outcomes.14</span> <br><br>31-Mar-05 8:00 AM The relationship among strength and mobility measures and self-report outcome scores in persons after rotator cuff repair surgery:Impairment measures are not enough <span class="body_copy">Until recently, few investigators challenged the pre-vailing medical view of health. Medicine perceived health as an observable, biologic fact, and the goal of medical assessment was to objectively evaluate the body&rsquo;s status. Because patient reports of health status are subjective, they were considered unreliable and unscientific. The use of self-reports to evaluate health and health outcomes, however, has burgeoned in the last 10 to 20 years, as has the authority assigned to patients&rsquo; evaluations. Sullivan 14 described this move toward a &ldquo;new subjective medicine&rdquo; as a change in medicine&rsquo;s focus from patients&rsquo; bodies to patients&rsquo; lives. In the current milieu, self-reported perceptions of health, function, and health-related quality of life (of-ten called patient-centered outcomes) are prominent. These outcomes have authority not in spite of their subjectivity but because of their subjectivity. The inter-est of health policy agents and third-party insurers in health care value and cost-effectiveness may have been at the root of the shift toward patient-centered outcomes.14</span> no http://www.drgartsman.com/en/art/21/ Thu, 31 Mar 2005 13:00:00 GMT