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Aakash Keswani1, Lauren M Uhler1, Kevin J Bozic1
1Department of Surgery and Perioperative Care, Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas.
Abstract:
Quality, experience, and cost are important indicators of value to patients. However, stakeholders have yet to reach agreement on how to define quality and which measures should be used to assess quality. Measures that have been used to assess quality in health care include structural, process, patient experience, efficiency, and outcomes measures. Payers and other quality rating organizations use a combination of measures to rate or rank hospitals on the quality of care they provide. These ratings can be strictly informational or can be used to steer patients, for contracting between payers and providers, and more recently, for adjustments to reimbursements. Physicians and hospitals have a crucial role to play in the development of quality measures that are used to measure and improve value. Consensus on quality measures will facilitate meaningful comparisons across providers and insights that will enable improvements in the value of care we deliver to our patients.
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