Performance measurement – if done right – can be a core activity to move the health care system to higher value for the American public, while rewarding health professionals and health care ...

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 ...

Quality improvement measurement is the top IT business objective in 2018, survey shows Forty percent of healthcare executives and IT professionals rated measuring improvement in patient care quality ...

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 ...

The authors discuss a simple strategy for payers to ensure more patients with type 2 diabetes achieve control of A1C. Possibly the first treatment guidelines and the precursors to quality metrics ...

To improve performance, healthcare leaders need to understand the strengths and weaknesses of performance measures, according to a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded report from the Urban Institute ...

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 ...

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, ...

Prevention and Management of Osteoradionecrosis in Patients With Head and Neck Cancer Treated With Radiation Therapy: ISOO-MASCC-ASCO Guideline Clinical Insights Oncology is a complex clinical ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...