The Future of Quality Measurement for Improvement and Accountability

The Affordable Care Act expands access to health insurance and includes numerous provisions focused on delivering care that is high quality, safe, and affordable. Reliable and meaningful quality measurement that focuses on important outcomes, including patient experience throughout the health care s...

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Published inJAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association Vol. 309; no. 21; pp. 2215 - 2216
Main Authors Conway, Patrick H, Mostashari, Farzad, Clancy, Carolyn
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States American Medical Association 05.06.2013
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Collaboration
Delivery of Health Care - economics
Delivery of Health Care - standards
Efficiency, Organizational
Forecasting
Health care delivery
Health insurance
Outcome Assessment (Health Care) - methods
Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act 2010-US
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
Private sector
Public sector
Quality Indicators, Health Care - trends
Quality of care
Social Responsibility
United States
United States
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Summary:The Affordable Care Act expands access to health insurance and includes numerous provisions focused on delivering care that is high quality, safe, and affordable. Reliable and meaningful quality measurement that focuses on important outcomes, including patient experience throughout the health care system, is an essential prerequisite for achieving this goal. Here, Conway et al describe the characteristics of the quality measurement enterprise of the future, outline a potential roadmap for the transition, and identify a set of opportunities for public- and private-sector collaboration.
ISSN:0098-7484
1538-3598
DOI:10.1001/jama.2013.4929