To help providers improve continuously, the measurement system must also improve continuously, taking into account patient preferences and tradeoffs, providing richer data that cuts across providers and settings, and summarizing the results in real time for providers to use in improving quality.

Improving the Quality of Quality Measurement

Cheryl L. Damberg, David William Baker

ResearchPosted on rand.org Mar 21, 2016Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine, Editorial, 2016

To help providers improve continuously, the measurement system must also improve continuously, taking into account patient preferences and tradeoffs, providing richer data that cuts across providers and settings, and summarizing the results in real time for providers to use in improving quality.

Key Takeaways

  • To help providers improve continuously, the measurement system must also improve continuously.
  • The next phase of quality measurement will require constructing measures that take into account patient preferences and tradeoffs; better data that cuts across providers and settings and has richer information on outcomes and patient factors affecting outcomes; and better ability to summarize results of the measurement in real time for use by providers to support quality improvement.
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Document Details

  • Copyright: Society of General Internal Medicine 2016
  • Publisher: Springer US
  • Availability: Non-RAND
  • Year: 2016
  • Pages: 2
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.7249/pubs
  • Document Number: EP-66397

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