Institute:Office of National Coordinator (ONC) Workforce Training Curriculum
Component:The Culture of Health Care
Unit:Quality Measurement and Improvement
Lecture:Role of IT and informatics
Results of current approaches to quality assessment
Slide content:Results of Current Approaches Does better performance on measures lead to improved patient outcomes? What problems arise from current approaches? Results in other countries, such as in England 11
Slide notes:Next is a discussion of the results of current approaches to quality measurement and a review of research that has attempted to determine whether better performance on quality measures, particularly process measures, leads to improved patient outcomes. Theres evidence both for and against these approaches, and other problems might arise from the current strategies to measure quality. 11