Many of the metrics currently used to assess quality of hospital care fail to provide true and valuable accountability, according to leaders of a key organization that helped develop them.Get fit and avoid the failings of bad metrics.
Quality measures now in place include some that "only give us a false sense of accomplishment and reward 'gaming'" or otherwise fail to meet basic criteria for meaningful assessments of patient care, Mark Chassin, MD, MPP, MPH, president of the Joint Commission, and colleagues wrote in the Aug. 12 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
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Saturday, August 28, 2010
Change Promised for Hospital Quality Measures
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