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Health care quality is the degree to which health care services for individuals and populations increase the likelihood of desired health outcomes. [2] Quality of care plays an important role in describing the iron triangle of health care relationships between quality, cost, and accessibility of health care within a community. [3]
HEDIS 2006 Volume 2: Technical Specifications. The Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) is a widely used set of performance measures in the managed care industry, developed and maintained by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA).
The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) is an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in the United States that works to improve health care quality through the administration of evidence-based standards, measures, programs, and accreditation. The National Committee for Quality Assurance operates on a formula of measure ...
CORRECTING and REPLACING Forty-One Health Management Hospitals Achieve Quality Measures to Rank on Joint Commission "Top Performers" List Thirty of the Hospitals Have Made the List in Both Years ...
As a preface to his analysis of methodologies used in health services research, Donabedian identified the three dimensions that can be utilized to assess quality of care (structure, process, and outcome) that would later become the core divisions of the Donabedian Model. [16] “Evaluating the Quality of Medical Care” became one of the most ...
In 2015 CMS identified 254 quality measures for which providers may choose to submit data. The measures map to U.S. National Quality Standard (NQS) health care quality domains: [4] Communication and Care Coordination; Community/Population Health; Effective Clinical Care; Efficiency and Cost Reduction; Patient Safety
Over the first three years of the project (2003–2006), participating hospitals raised overall quality by an average of 15.8 percent [3] based on their delivery of 30 nationally standardized and widely accepted care measures [4] [5] to patients in these five clinical areas: acute myocardial infarction (AMI/heart attack) coronary artery bypass ...
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