You can’t manage what you can’t measure. That’s why quality measurement is so important in healthcare. Yet for many providers, quality measurement has become an onerous process involving people, paper ...

Prevention and Management of Osteoradionecrosis in Patients With Head and Neck Cancer Treated With Radiation Therapy: ISOO-MASCC-ASCO Guideline Clinical Insights Oncology is a complex clinical ...

Quality measures (QMs) are performance tools for health plans and clinicians that are intended to assess and influence the quality and quantity of delivered health care. When QMs are thoughtfully ...

As science races to address COVID-19, among the weaknesses highlighted by the pandemic is our inability to rapidly develop clinical guidelines, related decision supports, and quality measures to ...

Helen Burstin, MD, MPH, FACP, chief scientific officer of The National Quality Forum, explained that the 2 gaps that exist in quality measurement currently include data infrastructure and patient ...

Quality and performance measurement has become an integral part of the healthcare system. As pharmacists continue to increase their role and exposure as healthcare providers, they are well positioned ...

Federal officials have quietly withdrawn the only new nursing home quality measure that had been listed as “under consideration” for future years. In December, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid ...

Are imperfect and limited measures of health care quality and value better than none at all? That may not be just a rhetorical question soon, given that House Republicans are considering seriously the ...

Although robust evidence demonstrates that specialty palliative care integrated into oncology care improves patient and health system outcomes, few clinicians are familiar with the standards, ...

Between 2008 and 2018, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) invested more than $1.3 billion to develop and maintain quality measures to be used to promote healthcare quality and quality ...

Recent discussions on pre-K quality center around questions of what we should prioritize in early childhood classrooms — and how we should measure success. A new guide provides a chance “to explore ...