Combining information about process and outcomes to improve clinical care.
For some managers, clinical quality improvement begins and ends with measuring the clinical outcomes of care. For others, analyzing and altering processes of care are the central focus. To remove quality improvement from the realm of guesswork, these approaches must be intertwined. In health care, this linkage has appeared elusive. Now, using decision theory, there is a way.
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D003659:Decision Making, Organizational; D003662:Decision Theory; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014481:United States