This study presents an example of a population health initiative in a limited-resource primary care setting that led to significant improvements in preventive care quality metrics in the context of ...

The evolution of health care quality metrics over the preceding decades illustrates an enduring commitment toward enhancing patient outcomes, refining the structure of health care delivery, and ...

In my last article, and the first in our series on metrics, I made three key points: Embrace the notion that most factories are cost centers. Create the mindset of CI/lean, i.e., there is always a ...

How important are metrics in the ASC community? You need to only review the Oct. 11, 2010, letter to the Department of Health and Human Services from the ASC Association, ASC Advocacy Committee and ...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As an incremental step toward wider use of electronic data platforms to measure, report, and improve quality, the National Quality Forum (NQF) has ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused quality leaders to seek innovative solutions to not only maintain but reinvigorate quality efforts, with renewed attention on maintaining measures as hospitalizations ...

Andrew M. Morris MD SM, Stacey Brener BSc, Linda Dresser PharmD, Nick Daneman MD MSc, Timothy H. Dellit MD, Edina Avdic PharmD MBA and Chaim M. Bell MD PhD Introduction. Antimicrobial stewardship ...

The American Heart Association (AHA) and American College of Cardiology (ACC) have issued new performance and quality measures for the treatment of patients with STEMI and NSTEMI, abandoning some ...

Hospital and health system quality leaders are focused on quality improvement measures ranging from improving access to care to workplace safety as they head into fall. Becker’s asked leaders what ...

Panelists discuss how quality metrics should focus on keeping patients out of hospitals through core medical therapies, measuring all-cause hospitalizations and days spent at home in the community, ...

But what exactly is high-quality early learning and child care? As I have examined in my research with a number of colleagues ...