Quality Measurement and Accountability in Cardiovascular Medicine

Quality Measurement and Accountability in Cardiovascular Medicine

Circulation. 2016;134:632–634. DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.116.021916 632 Frederick A. Masoudi, MD, MSPH The rise of quality measurement and the proliferation of programs that require accountability for quality are among the most dramatic developments in cardiovascular medicine in the past 2 decades. The quality revolution now affects the daily practice of virtually every cardiovascular clinici...

Quality and Accountability in PSE Research: The Measurement Challenge

The future of quality measurement for improvement and accountability.

Patrick H. Conway, MD, MSc Farzad Mostashari, MD, MPH Carolyn Clancy, MD THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT EXPANDS ACCESS TO HEALTH insuranceand includesnumerousprovisions focused ondeliveringcare that ishighquality, safe, andaffordable.Reliableandmeaningfulqualitymeasurementthat focuses on important outcomes, including patient experience throughout the health care system, is an essential prerequisite fo...

Accountability measures--using measurement to promote quality improvement.

Measuring the quality of health care and using those measurements to promote improvements in the delivery of care, to influence payment for services, and to increase transparency are now commonplace. These activities, which now involve virtually all U.S. hospitals, are migrating to ambulatory and other care settings and are increasingly evident in health care systems worldwide. Many constituenc...

Accountability and Performance Measurement: A Stakeholder Perspective

Accountability and management accounting have strong links, especially around performance reporting. Many approaches, such as the balanced scorecard and Ramanathan’s (1985) accountability framework, stem from management accounting research and practice. Accountability and performance measurement are linked inextricably; in fact, the interpretation of performance requires accountability as its r...