Accountability Measures — Using Measurement to Promote Quality Improvement
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- 12 August 2010
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in The New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 363 (7), 683-688
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmsb1002320
Abstract
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.Keywords
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