Andrew Auerbach, MD, MPH, and colleagues recently argued that interventions (emphasis added) to improve the quality of healthcare should meet the same standards of evidence that are applied to the ...

The committee’s selection of performance measures began with identifying leading performance measure sets 1 and classifying these measures within nationally endorsed frameworks for quality assessment ...

Performance measurement – if done right – can be a core activity to move the health care system to higher value for the American public, while rewarding health professionals and health care ...

DALLAS—A new digital white paper created by FirstWatch, in partnership with the National EMS Quality Alliance, shows how you can use performance measures to “take the pulse” of your EMS system. “This ...

The American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) have provided an update to their clinical performance and quality measures for adults with heart failure (HF) to bring ...

Medicare’s Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) includes episode-based cost measures that evaluate Medicare expenditures for specific conditions and procedures. These measures compare ...

These days, as we navigate frequent and often massive disruptions to our businesses and the global economy, we are all looking for ways to move faster, more efficiently and with fewer problems. And to ...

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