title: Defining performance of organizations.
abstract: Quality is and always has been in the beholder's eye. It is therefore necessary, as argued in this excerpt from The Measurement Mandate, the latest text on the Joint Commission's Agenda for Change indicator development and testing methodology, to concentrate on the best ways to measure, assess, and improve the discernible, quantifiable dimensions of an organization's performance.
mesh_terms: D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D006279:Health Maintenance Organizations / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006296:Health Services / Q000191:economics; D006298:Health Services Administration; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D006814:Hungary; D008330:Management Audit; D009774:Obstetrics / Q000266:history; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000191:economics / Q000266:history / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014481:United States