PCPI: Physician-led effort improving quality of care

Hoven talks about physicians' effort to improve quality of care. More than a decade ago, under the assumption that to improve something one must be able to measure it, the American Medical Association convened a group of doctors, in collaboration with several specialty and state societies, to develop measures to treat diabetes that they could use--and count on--to improve the quality and efficiency of care. This initial collaboration showed that a physician-led, jointly developed, quantifiable approach to performance improvement offered benefits not only to physicians and patients, but also to the American health care system. And so the Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement was born. Since then, the PCPI has become a recognized leader in the field of quality measure development.