Suggested Citation: "Appendix F Commissioned Paper: Improving the Quality of Quality Measurement--John D. Birkmeyer, Eve A. Kerr, and Justin B. Dimick." Institute of ...

Skilled nursing facilities have an additional tool to measure their own quality improvement efforts under a new change to the quality measures rating domain. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ...

The quality-measurement movement began more than 20 years ago and has resulted in transparent quality-performance information, accountability, and improvements. At the same time, proliferation of ...

The accreditation process is comprised of two distinct parts: a pre-audit phase; and the audit itself, with actual ...

Turnover among directors of nursing plays an outsize role in nursing home quality outcomes and should be better emphasized in government quality ratings, finds a new analysis. The good news, say ...

SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Quality Engine, the administrative measure logic and sample processing component of Cotiviti’s Quality Intelligence solution, has earned HEDIS ® Certified Measures™ ...

Workforce diversity in medicine, particularly at the highest levels of health care leadership, remains an elusive goal. In the United States, 3.6% of medical school faculty are Black, 3.3% are ...

Oncologists face increasing complexity in the delivery of high-quality cancer care. Challenges arise from the simultaneous rapid expansion of the armamentarium of anticancer treatments with ...

Preventable admissions are an appealing measure because they are easy to assess using readily available data, which explains their proliferation as the pressure to measure outcomes has increased.

When reviewing job growth and salary information, it’s important to remember that actual numbers can vary due to many different factors—like years of experience in the role, industry of employment, ...

The committee’s selection of performance measures began with identifying leading performance measure sets 1 and classifying these measures within nationally endorsed frameworks for quality assessment ...