Rigorous study design and analytical standards are required to generate reliable findings in healthcare from artificial intelligence (AI) research. One crucial but often overlooked aspect is the ...

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

Nursing home quality is in such flux in the US that more than a quarter of 5-star rated facilities later slid to the lowest ...

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

Health care outcome measures (for example, glycemic control and mortality) do not directly measure the quality of care. Although outcomes reflect the quality of care, they also reflect the ...

Quality in health care should incorporate patients' experiences, as current quality indicators often miss this aspect. Interpersonal relationships and being treated as individuals significantly ...

at the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute raises critical questions about the effectiveness of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' (CMS) sepsis quality measure, known as the Severe ...

Equity measures such as those in exhibit 1 must be included. CMS and other stakeholders should prioritize high-quality health care that fully supports the growing numbers of vulnerable older ...

Quality measurement, reporting, and payment programs have the potential to focus attention on these care gaps and drive improvement. The federal government, as the largest single payer of health care ...

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 ...

Quality measure performance varied by patient demographic ... president and CEO of the American College of Health Care Administrators, in an email statement. “Now that we’re moving out ...

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 ...