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 ...

Prevention and Management of Osteoradionecrosis in Patients With Head and Neck Cancer Treated With Radiation Therapy: ISOO-MASCC-ASCO Guideline Clinical Insights Oncology is a complex clinical ...

A new study led by the Center for Sepsis Epidemiology and Prevention Studies (SEPSIS) at the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute raises critical questions about the effectiveness of the Centers for ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In business, the focus on consistent outcomes includes managing “inputs,” such as uniform materials and ...

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 ...

We implemented a quality improvement study involving 704 infants in our level IV NICU. A multidisciplinary workgroup developed guidelines for length measurement technique and completed ...

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 ...

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, ...