Death rate was eliminated as a primary outcome measure, replaced with the time it took patients to recover. Government clinical trial investigators changed the primary metric for measuring the success ...

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 ...

The National Quality Forum (NQF) Measure Incubator provides a platform for the development of patient-reported outcome performance measures in palliative cancer care, which is essential to ...

Faced with the alarming implications of health care spending growth and suboptimal quality, many nations are turning to market-based reforms. The United Kingdom recently empowered primary care ...

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has identified 10 domains for National Outcome Measures (NOM). The domains embody meaningful, real-life outcomes for people who ...

This review presents a set of evidence-based outcome measures for oncology alternative payment models, drawing on evidence from existing and proposed quality measures. Objectives: This paper aims to ...