Performance on Medicare Star Ratings medication adherence measures is significantly tied to performance on the intermediate outcome and statin process measures. Objectives: To assess the interrelation ...

Suggested Citation: "Appendix F Commissioned Paper: Improving the Quality of Quality Measurement--John D. Birkmeyer, Eve A. Kerr, and Justin B. Dimick." Institute of ...

A massive quality industrial complex has led to hundreds of measures that are primarily process-focused rather than patient-outcome based. Over the past several decades, an appealing idea rapidly ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. While diagnostic tests are used to determine the cause of signs and symptoms, outcome ...

Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) have become indispensable tools in the assessment and management of low back pain, providing direct insight into patients’ perceptions of pain intensity, ...

This Forefront article synthesizes lessons from widely adopted health care quality metrics to inform future quality metric design and development. The evolution of health care quality metrics over the ...

How would we know if we were improving value without having a way to measure it? Oceans of data exist in healthcare–payroll, general ledger, and billing to name a few. But, data has not been available ...