UM: Health Care

The Wall Street Journal reports on how health care providers are shifting their treatments to focus on quality-of-life outcomes for patients. The article quotes Noreen Clark, director of the University of Michigan’s Center for Managing Chronic Disease: “Quality of life happens to be the element that is most important in motivating people to deal with an illness. People aren’t motivated to follow their clinical regimen if in fact it doesn’t improve the way they function and get along with others and manage day to day.” [Source]