Panelists discuss how quality metrics should focus on keeping patients out of hospitals through core medical therapies, measuring all-cause hospitalizations and days spent at home in the community, ...

It’s no secret that today’s healthcare system revolves around metrics. Specifically, quality metrics are increasingly used to define “good” care and determine reimbursement. But do these standardized ...

Medicare Advantage outperformed traditional Medicare on clinical quality measures before and during the COVID-19 pandemic; mid-pandemic, however, traditional Medicare narrowed the gap on some ...

Ensuring excellent quality and outcomes is the essential goal of medical care. To achieve it, a multitude of quality metrics have been added to clinicians’ work. They include things such as ...

The University of Texas Medical Branch has four campuses, five health sciences schools, seven institutes for advanced study, a research enterprise that includes one of only two national laboratories ...

It has been 10 years since the Triple Aim was expanded to the Quadruple Aim (QA) to include “clinician well-being in the workplace” as a core health policy goal. This change came in response to the ...

The American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) have provided an update to their clinical performance and quality measures for adults with heart failure (HF) to bring ...