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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Chassin, Mark R
• Loeb, Jerod M
• Schmaltz, Stephen P
• Wachter, Robert M

Titel

Accountability Measures — Using Measurement to Promote Quality Improvement

Ist Teil von

• The New England journal of medicine, 2010-08, Vol.363 (7), p.683-688

Ort / Verlag

United States: Massachusetts Medical Society

Erscheinungsjahr

2010

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The authors argue that quality measures in health care should be based on strong evidence that a care process directly improves outcomes, should capture the actual performance of a process, should address a process proximate to the desired outcome, and should not have unintended adverse consequences. Measuring the quality of health care and using those measurements to promote improvements in the delivery of care, to influence payment for services, and to increase transparency are now commonplace. These activities, which now involve virtually all U.S. hospitals, are migrating to ambulatory and other care settings and are increasingly evident in health care systems worldwide. Many constituencies are pressing for continued expansion of programs that rely on quality measurement and reporting. In this article, we review the origins of contemporary standardized quality measurement, with a focus on hospitals, where such programs have reached their most highly developed state. We . . .