Time out charting a path for improving performance measurement. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

Time out charting a path for improving performance measurement. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

• Commentary
 
• Published April 2018

Time out—charting a path for improving performance measurement.

MacLean CH, Kerr EA, Qaseem A. N Engl J Med. 2018 Apr 18; [Epub ahead of print].

Measurement of quality and patient safety is challenging. In this commentary, the authors applied a five-domain criteria to rate the validity across 86 measures used to track ambulatory internal medicine performance and determined only 32 to be valid. They advocate for revising measurement to address performance gaps.

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