reporting and the challenges associated with adding cost and efficiency measures to reports of quality performance data. A subsequent brief, “Lessons in Performance Measurement: A Community Approach to Reducing Readmissions,” will look at readmission rates, one of the most commonly reported cost and efficiency measures ...

Aug 01,2011

West Michigan Doctors Exceed National Averages on Diabetes Care

Measurement & Reporting ... report has scored above the national average on diabetes outcome measures for insured patients. The ... performance on three key diabetes outcome measures (HbA1c control, blood pressure control and cholesterol ...

Sep 02,2011

in the doctor’s office, and using patient surveys allows the measurement of whether care is ... collaboratives in discussing the growing importance of measuring patient experience and providing the information ... Measuring Patients' Experience of Care ...

Apr 30,2012

Agenda for the October 30th AF4Q webinar focused on national, state and regional measurement initiatives. The webinar is scheduled from 12-1pm. AF4Q 4.0 Public ...

Oct 18,2012

Presentation John Kenyon's handout of social media resources from the workshop 'Measuring Success in Social Media' at the May 2014 National Meeting. ...

May 02,2014

Webinar: National Quality Forum's Quality Positioning System (QPS) V1.0

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Tool/Utility Tool, developed in December 2011, designed to facilitate effective consumer education and engagement around cost and efficiency measures. Public ...

Jan 10,2012

Advancing the Consumer and Purchaser Advocacy Agenda for Better Quality, More Affordable Care

is working to increase transparency in the health care market through better performance measurement ... health care system.  Strategies include: ensuring the availability of performance measures for ...

Sep 14,2011

Because Every Patient Counts

care measures were lower than the standard the 77-bed acute care hospital had set. “Our nurses didn’t really understand what core measures were really, really all about, or what it takes to actually get in compliance with those measures,” said Joan Sweet, vice president and chief quality/risk officer ...

Jun 06,2012

Background

various strategies to identify performance measures that offer information that community stakeholders ... explicitly called for the inclusion of measures of patient experience with ambulatory care alongside measures ... widely accepted tool for measuring patient experience with ambulatory care, developed by the Agency for ...

May 14,2015