Does Hospital Performance on Process Measures Directly Measure High Quality Care or Is It a Marker of Unmeasured Care?
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Hospital performance measures and quality of care.
Increasingly, quality improvement initiatives emphasize public reporting of hospital performance measures, to encourage providers to improve, to help consumers pick providers, and to determine provider payments. Although these measures are based on compliance with well-established processes of care, it is unknown whether quality measured in this way is correlated with, or predictive of, clinica...
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عنوان ژورنال: Health Services Research
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0017-9124,1475-6773
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2007.00817.x