Knowing quality is, therefore, of utmost importance for each of us. At the risk of oversimplification, let’s define three broad measurement areas in today’s healthcare: (1) Metrics about ...

“Less is more,” the old adage states. But quality measurement in US health care has trended relentlessly toward “more.” Often, this results from the best of intentions. Payers and policy ...

Margaret "Peggy" O'Kane is the founder and president of the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA). She started the ...

The National Committee for Quality Assurance is emphasizing follow-up care, particularly for hypertension and breast cancer assessments, with its newest measure additions to the Healthcare ...

has reported on health care quality and disparities, 4 utilizing more than 250 measures from national data assessing structures, processes, and outcomes across health care settings. Some state ...

Objective Quality improvement (QI) practices and scholarship are increasingly concerned with environmental sustainability ...

with additional measures added on, depending on the population or setting. CMS operates more than 20 quality programs focused on individual clinicians, certain health care settings such as ...

Transforming performance isn't just about checking boxes or meeting compliance standards — it’s about transforming systems to ...

It may seem somewhat contradictory to proclaim the many bountiful benefits of our health care system, yet at the same time suggest that we subsidize it too much and “everyone else” must be ...

Even medical professionals can't always judge this. Quality management in health care works to measure the health benefits of doctors' and hospitals' work and improve patient outcomes. The Health ...

Health care organizations must drill into evolving cardiovascular quality measures designed to improve patient‐relevant outcomes. These include mortality, hospital readmission and patient ...

We thus recommend that greenhouse-gas–related measurement and reporting should be a requirement for all health care delivery organizations (HCOs), broadly defined to include inpatient ...