Tag : Quality measurement

ABSTRACT: Is It Time to Change Directions of Quality Measures?

Current sets of measures of clinical quality were not designed to adequately describe trends in the overall health of individuals and of populations. There is no definition of “health” in the 2013 National Quality Strategy (NQS) provided in the Annual Report to Congress by the Secretary of Health and Human

Posted on 23 Oct 2014
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RESOURCE: Health Care Quality Measurement for Doctors’ Offices Needs Improvement

In its 2001 report Crossing the Quality Chasm, the Institute of Medicine outlined six domains of quality in medical care: safety, effectiveness, patient-centeredness, timeliness, efficiency and equity. But, Dr. Tara Bishop writes in a new viewpoint article published online March 21, in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA),