As someone who leads an integrated health care delivery system, this is a question I frequently find myself asking. The obvious answer, of course, is to develop measurements based on treatment ...

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, ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront featured topic Accountable Care for Population Health, featuring analysis and discussion of how to understand, design, support, and measure ...

Performance measurement – if done right – can be a core activity to move the health care system to higher value for the American public, while rewarding health professionals and health care ...

Top Medicare and Medicaid officials want to create a “universal foundation” of quality measures aligned across all programs in a bid to ease reporting burdens and confusion. Officials with the Centers ...

The quality-measurement movement began more than 20 years ago and has resulted in transparent quality-performance information, accountability, and improvements. At the same time, proliferation of ...

The Health Insurance Disparities Index allows stakeholders to assess progress in addressing health care disparities using publicly available, validated, reported health plan quality metrics results.

Physician reimbursement increasingly depends upon measures of healthcare quality. Physicians who fall short on quality measures now face financial penalties. But it might be quality measures, ...

The burden of cancer is growing in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), including sub-Saharan Africa. Ensuring the delivery of high-quality cancer care in such regions is a pressing concern.