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British Journal of Anaesthesia 2008 100(1):1-3; doi:10.1093/bja/aem351
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Patient-centred outcomes in clinical research: does it really matter?

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‘It does not matter whether the degree of patients’ satisfaction reflects the competence of the physician or the quality of care. The important thing is that if patients are dissatisfied, health care has not achieved its goal’.1

This statement, which was published 16 yr ago, reflects the (growing) importance of the technical and non-technical dimension of outcome.2 The technical aspect attempts to assess the skill and competence of professionals, and the ability of diagnostic or therapeutic procedures to accomplish what they are meant to, or, from the patients’ perspective: do they really get what they need? Patients quite rightly expect that the care they receive is methodologically . . . [Full Text of this Article]

T. Heidegger*

Department of Anaesthesia
Spitalregion Rheintal Werdenberg Sarganserland
Spitalstrasse 5
8880 Walenstadt
Switzerland

M. Nuebling

Empirical Consulting (GEB mbH)
Hauptstrasse 67.1
79211 Denzlingen
Germany

D. Saal

Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care
Landeskrankenhaus
6800 Feldkirch
Austria

G. Kreienbühl

Research Ethics Committee
Kanton St Gallen
Rorschacherstrasse 95
9007 St Gallen
Switzerland

* E-mail: thomas.heidegger@srrws.ch


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