Why Patient-Reported Outcomes are Key in Specialty Pharmacy
- Raking in about 50 percent of all pharmacy costs for only about 2.5 percent of all prescribed patients, the specialty pharmacy arena is one ripe for the development and use of patient-reported outcomes to assess treatment efficacy, according to Sree Chaguturu, MD, the chief medical officer for CVS Caremark. As opposed to traditional clinical quality measures, which look at the...
