Performance measurement – if done right – can be a core activity to move the health care system to higher value for the American public, while rewarding health professionals and health care ...

Quality measurement has been around for nearly 2 decades and in that time measures have evolved and also proliferated to the point of placing considerable burden on physicians and health systems. New ...

The quality payment program (QPP) creates new quality measurement and reporting requirements for eligible clinicians and the hospitals with whom they partner. However, the QPP’s payment implications ...

1 Houston Veterans Affairs Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety, Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center and the Section of Health Services Research, Department of ...

Introduction Using specific tools to assess the measurement properties of health status instruments is recommended both to standardise the review process and to improve the methodological quality of ...

Objectives The aim of this study is to explore the current and future state of quality measurement and feedback and identify factors influencing measurement feedback systems, including the barriers ...

One of the most effective techniques to improve quality is to measure quality. The aim of this article is to defend the importance of quality measurement in nuclear medicine using the long-standing ...

In digital broadcasting, video and audio signals are broadcast at low bit rates *2 by employing efficient compression schemes. Audio signals are compressed using so-called perceptual audio coding ...