Sustainable Approach to Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Through Better Quality Measurement

• Published in: Circulation Cardiovascular quality and outcomes Vol. 17; no. 5; p. e010791
• Main Authors: Okeke, Nkem, Hennessey, Kerrilynn C, Sitapati, Amy M, Weisshaar, Dana, Shah, Nishant P, Alicki, Rebecca, Haft, Howard
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.05.2024
• Subjects: quality indicators, health care; health equity; social determinants of health; ethnicity

The US health care industry has broadly adopted performance and quality measures that are extracted from electronic health records and connected to payment incentives that hope to improve declining life expectancy and health status and reduce costs. While the development of a quality measurement inf...