Hospitals and healthcare providers in rural areas are faced with a number of challenges when it comes to measuring quality performance and optimizing quality improvement efforts, according to a report ...

Over the past several decades, an appealing idea rapidly gained popularity: The government could advance a health care system that rewarded the quality of care rather than the volume of care. Medicare ...

The past decade has seen an unprecedented level of concern and action focused on improving the quality of American health care. Catalyzed in part by two Institute of Medicine (IOM) reports—To Err Is ...

The American College of Physicians (ACP) supports meaningful, evidence-based performance measures for internal medicine that ...

Suggested Citation: "Appendix F Commissioned Paper: Improving the Quality of Quality Measurement--John D. Birkmeyer, Eve A. Kerr, and Justin B. Dimick." Institute of ...