Vital signs : core metrics for health and health care progress

Vital signs : core metrics for health and health care progress /

Thousands of measures are in use today to assess health and health care in the United States. Although many of these measures provide useful information, their usefulness in either gauging or guiding performance improvement in health and health care is seriously limited by their sheer number, as wel...

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Corporate Author: Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Core Metrics for Better Health at Lower Cost
Other Authors: Blumenthal, David, 1948- (Editor), Malphrus, Elizabeth (Editor), McGinnis, J. Michael (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, [2015]
Series:Online access: NCBI NCBI Bookshelf.
Subjects:
Medical care > United States > Cost control.
Medical statistics.
Outcome assessment (Medical care) > United States.
Public health records > United States.
Health care reform > United States.
Quality Indicators, Health Care > standards
Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care > standards
United States
Academic theses.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction and overview
  • Health care and health care measurement in America
  • Improving the impact of measurement
  • The core measure set
  • Implementation : putting the core measures to use
  • Action agenda
  • Appendixes: Glossary ; Existing reporting requirements ; Existing data sources ; Existing infrastructure ; Biosketches of committee members and staff.

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