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Activity 1: Improving Health Care Through Patient Reported Outcomes

Advocating for strategies to measure effective ways to improve the health care system is an important component of achieving high-quality, comprehensive, affordable health care for all Americans. Patient reported outcomes are one way to do this.

• What are some of the advantages of using patient reported outcomes?
• How is Families USA advocating for the increased use of patient reported outcomes?
• Select Key Issues, then Health System Transformation. What are the rationales provided for transforming the health system? How might these be used by an advocate to market this idea?

Activity 2: Evidence-Based Practice

Social Work Today notes that evidence-based practice “is not as widespread as proponents would like and still faces resistance due to a number of factors, including a basic misunderstanding among behavioral health professionals of what evidence-based practice actually is.”

• How has the definition of evidence-based practice changed?
• What are some factors contributing to the growth of using evidence-based practices?
• What are some of the barriers to using evidence-based practices?