We are at an inflection point in our efforts to measure the quality of U.S. health care. Most medical professionals accept that rigorous quality measurement is essential to improving care and ...

Interest in comparative quality measurement and evaluation has grown considerably over the past two decades because of factors such as the recognition of widespread variation in clinical practice, the ...

A newly released report on the state of Minnesota’s health care quality shows a bit of a mixed performance last year but with one large takeaway: most quality measures are still below pre-pandemic ...

We rate Uber drivers, restaurants, Amazon delivery, and much more, but when it comes to our own health experience, we often have little to no data. That’s especially scary because the business model ...

Researchers from across the country, including Yale-New Haven (Conn.) Hospital and Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, have recommended eight quality indicators for performance ...

The lived environment has a significant impact on individuals’ health outcomes. For instance, outcomes can depend on access to surrounding resources, such as public transportation, job opportunities, ...

The Commonwealth Fund scorecard ranks Mississippi, Texas, Nevada, and Oklahoma among the poorest-performing states overall for women’s health care access, quality, and outcomes, while Massachusetts, ...

August 16, 2011 — Quality-of-care indicators may be useful to monitor and help improve quality of care for children with sickle cell disease (SCD), according to the results of a literature review and ...

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is looking for healthcare professionals to help create quality indicators (QIs) based upon ICD-10-CM/PCS code sets. QIs are measures of health ...

Different approaches to measure the hospital competition index might lead to inconsistent results of the effects of hospital competition on innovation adoption. The purpose of this study is to adopt a ...