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Albert P Nguyen1, Joseph A Hyder2, Brendan T Wanta2
1Department of Anesthesiology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA.
Background:
Performance measurement is essential for quality improvement and is inevitable in the shift to value-based payment. The National Quality Forum is an important clearinghouse for national performance measures in health care in the United States.
Aim:
We reviewed the National Quality Forum library of performance measures to highlight measures that are relevant to critical care medicine, and we describe gaps and opportunities for the future of performance measurement in critical care medicine.
Conclusion:
Crafting performance measures that address core aspects of critical care will be challenging, as current outcome and performance measures have problems with validity. Future quality measures will likely focus on interdisciplinary measures across the continuum of patient care.
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