Developing and evaluating performance measures for ambulatory care quality: a preliminary report of the DEMPAQ project.
Because of the focus on technical quality, the content of the DEMPAQ performance measures is clinically detailed and oriented toward processes of care relevant to the everyday practice of medicine in the ambulatory setting. This emphasis is crucial if the performance measures are to be useful to practicing physicians.
Lawthers
A G
AG
Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, MA 02115.
Palmer
R H
RH
Edwards
J E
JE
Fowles
J
J
Garnick
D W
DW
Weiner
J P
JP
D000553:Ambulatory Care / Q000592:standards*; D010865:Pilot Projects; D017064:Process Assessment, Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards*; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards*; D014481:United States