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Chad Leaver
Director, Health
Chad Leaver is the Director for the Health Knowledge Area at The Conference Board of Canada, and lead for CBoC’s Centre for Value-Based Healthcare (VBHC). Chad oversees multi-stakeholder, custom, and priority research initiatives.
Understanding the Use of Patient Reported Outcomes in Colorectal Cancer
March 6, 2023
Measurement of patient-reported outcomes (PROs) in clinical practice is growing in importance. PROs are a primary pillar of operationalizing value-based healthcare (VBHC) approaches. They offer timely and actionable information on patients’ experiences with the care they received and their current health status (during and following care encounters) and as such provide actionable information to inform therapeutic intervention by clinical teams.
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Address questions or evaluations about workplace health and safety, and health care innovation.
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Value-Based Healthcare Canada
Canada’s healthcare systems are under exceptional stress. We must improve patient care and outcomes, cost transparency, and capacity to meet current needs and serve future generations. Value-based healthcare (VBHC) is an international framework that can help achieve this by focusing on self-reported outcomes and quality of life.
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