Death rate was eliminated as a primary outcome measure, replaced with the time it took patients to recover. Government clinical trial investigators changed the primary metric for measuring the success ...
Health care quality measures traditionally take into account things that are easy to measure, such as adverse events, medication adherence, and trends in blood glucose levels. These measures are often ...
The National Quality Forum (NQF) Measure Incubator provides a platform for the development of patient-reported outcome performance measures in palliative cancer care, which is essential to ...
To develop a core outcome set for Achilles tendinopathy (COS-AT) for use in clinical trials we performed a five-step process including (1) a systematic review of available outcome measurement ...
We have performed a cross-sectional study of a population that is representative of people in our hospital undergoing knee replacement surgery. We have assessed gait with regards to knee range of ...
Faced with the alarming implications of health care spending growth and suboptimal quality, many nations are turning to market-based reforms. The United Kingdom recently empowered primary care ...
This review presents a set of evidence-based outcome measures for oncology alternative payment models, drawing on evidence from existing and proposed quality measures. Objectives: This paper aims to ...