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, ...

Outcomes refer to the effects of health care on patients and include both objective (eg, survival) and subjective outcome measures (eg, quality of life). Intuitively, structure, process, and outcome ...

The American College of Cardiology (ACC) and American Heart Association (AHA) have released a new set of performance and quality measures for cardiac rehabilitation (CR). The ACC/AHA Task Force on ...

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 ...

This study finds no evidence of a deleterious impact of pay-for-performance on minority patients in the Premier Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration. Retrospective cohort study comparing the ...