The Need to Simplify Measuring Quality in Health Care

The leadership of US health care institutions as well as practicing clinicians have raised concerns about the burdens being placed on them by the many quality and performance metrics required by various payers and regulators. Although the total number of health care measures in use in unknown, some...

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Veröffentlicht in:	JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association 2018-06, Vol.319 (23), p.2369-2370
1. Verfasser:	Wilensky, Gail
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Accountable Care Organizations - economics Accountable Care Organizations - standards Business metrics Government programs Health care Humans Insurance Claim Review Leadership Medicaid Medicare Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 Performance measurement Physician Incentive Plans - economics Physician Incentive Plans - legislation & jurisprudence Quality Indicators, Health Care Regulators United States
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Zusammenfassung:	The leadership of US health care institutions as well as practicing clinicians have raised concerns about the burdens being placed on them by the many quality and performance metrics required by various payers and regulators. Although the total number of health care measures in use in unknown, some 1700 reportedly are used by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) alone. The multiplicity of metrics is not a new problem, but resolving this issue is proving difficult.
ISSN:	0098-7484 1538-3598
DOI:	10.1001/jama.2018.6858