Hi there. Following the previous question, I still hope to know more about how to evaluate patients’ health outcomes in a program evaluation. Could you please kindly elaborate more for me?

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Researchers have used a variety of health outcome measures, including functional status, complications such as organ damage or lower extremity amputations, physical and mental functioning, quality of life, mortality, disability, pain, restricted activity days, days in bed, and self-reported health status. Fewer outcome measures were mentioned by the interview respondents, which included global health scores, days sick at home, quality of life, and measures of physical functioning. The Disease Management Association of America also recommends the use of one of the short-form health status surveys (SF-8, SF-12, or SF-36) to evaluate changes in patients' health status.