title: Designing and implementing guidelines-based performance measures. Agency for Health Care Policy and Research.
abstract: The Quality Agenda, a regular feature of The Quality Letter, offers practical models and information that leaders of healthcare organizations can adapt and use. This month, we present a model for designing and implementing guidelines-based performance measures developed by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research. For a complete description of the model, readers will want to refer to Using Clinical Practice Guidelines to Evaluate Quality of Care, Volumes 1 and 2. AHCPR publication numbers 95-0045 (Volume 1) and 95-0046 (Volume 2), March 1995. To order a copy of the publications, call 800/358-9295.
mesh_terms: D017146:Models, Organizational; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D010934:Planning Techniques; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic / Q000592:standards*; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians'; D014481:United States; D016270:United States Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality