A federal workgroup tasked with reviewing national quality measures for Medicaid home- and community-based services has delivered its biennial report, calling for the removal of three measures and the ...

A team of researchers from Johns Hopkins University set out to calculate how much time and money were devoted to measuring and reporting quality metric data to government and national healthcare ...

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, ...

Existing diabetes quality metrics do not currently help patients improve their health and diabetes quality measurement must be improved through the adoption of new measures and modernization, ...

Dr Slipczuk explores quality metrics, elaborating on ways to improve and align them with the latest cardiology treatment guidelines and payer considerations. Leandro N. Slipczuk, MD, PhD: We’re still ...

The American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology (AHA/ACC) have introduced a comprehensive list of clinical performance measures intended to target meaningful gaps in care, and that ...

It has been 10 years since the Triple Aim was expanded to the Quadruple Aim (QA) to include “clinician well-being in the workplace” as a core health policy goal. This change came in response to the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with pediatric lupus demonstrate better outcomes when all quality metrics are met. Researchers noted ...

Gastroenterologists and endoscopists are beginning to focus more on quality metrics to provide evidence-based treatment for patients. “From a quality standpoint, measuring outcomes is important ...

Teams need a metric that tracks more than just calendar days. The close quality score is an effective way to do just that.