Department of Learning Informatics Management and Ethics and Medical Management Center, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden (Dr Forsberg); The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice and the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire (Drs Nelson, Fisher, and Weinstein and Mss Mastanduno and Weiss); and Group Health Research Institute, Seattle, Washington (Drs Reid and Grossman).
Correspondence: Eugene C. Nelson, DSc, MPH, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, 35 Centerra Pkwy, Ste 300, Lebanon, NH 03766 ([email protected]).
The authors thank Susan Edgman-Levitan, PA, from the John D. Stoeckle Center for Primary Care Innovation at Massachusetts General Hospital, and Nancy Wilson, MD, from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, for serving as external reviewers and for their guidance, suggestions, and critique of this article. The authors also are grateful for the generous financial support given to the Population Health Center at The Dartmouth Institute by The Dartmouth Center for Healthcare Delivery Science to advance the science of patient-reported measures of health outcomes, patient experience, and decision quality.
There are no conflicts of interest for the authors or their organizations. Partial Funding for Dartmouth authors Dr Nelson and Ms Mastanduno was provided by the Dartmouth Center for Healthcare Delivery Science.
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