Faced with the alarming implications of health care spending growth and suboptimal quality, many nations are turning to market-based reforms. The United Kingdom recently empowered primary care ...

Health care quality measures traditionally take into account things that are easy to measure, such as adverse events, medication adherence, and trends in blood glucose levels. These measures are often ...

To assess the implementation of evidence-based genomic medicine and its population-level impact on health outcomes and to promote public health genetics interventions, in 2015 the Roundtable on ...

Assisted living industry advocates say they support the goals of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in its newly ...

Quality-of-life (QOL) measurement has a rich history in rheumatology, and although the study of health measurements has expanded remarkably in recent years, there are a number of methodological issues ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. While diagnostic tests are used to determine the cause of signs and symptoms, outcome ...

The long-sought goal of measuring the quality of U.S. transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) programs by patient outcomes rather than by the surrogate measure of case volume is about to be ...

Authors from the National Quality Forum discuss development of the next generation of diabetes measures, including those that reflect "the voice of the patient." Diabetes is the 7th leading cause of ...

Using examples from the field of anterior cruciate ligament rehabilitation, this review provides sports and health practitioners with a comprehensive, user-friendly, guide to selecting outcome ...