Today, the Association of Organ Procurement Organizations (AOPO) announced the submission of new performance metrics designed ...

Ministers have announced plans to bolster 16-19 performance measures after admitting public accountability data misses the ...

The lack of oversight of contracted work is commonplace. It’s important to track things early, before audits uncover problems ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has proposed a new set of quality measures for Medicaid home- and ...

Please note: This item is from our archives and was published in 2002. It is provided for historical reference. The content may be out of date and links may no longer function. SINCE MOST KEY BUSINESS ...

Determining and establishing performance measures prior to a project’s planning process assists in defining if the project was successful. Measurements assess whether the IT initiatives align with ...

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

For a financial performance measure to be good, it should generally rise when good things happen and decline when bad things happen. And it should motivate high-quality decision-making. This may seem ...

Andrew Auerbach, MD, MPH, and colleagues recently argued that interventions (emphasis added) to improve the quality of healthcare should meet the same standards of evidence that are applied to the ...