title: Clinical performance measures focus on process steps.
abstract: Performance measures go beyond mortality and cost: Using process steps as performance measures allows providers to easily determine where action needs to be taken to improve quality. One consultant has developed a list of 37 performance measures in nine disease categories and tracks performance using a software program. Here are the details, plus some disease-specific benchmarks.
mesh_terms: D019985:Benchmarking; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D019468:Disease Management; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000458:organization & administration; D007591:Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations; D008403:Mass Screening; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians'; D011314:Preventive Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration; D017064:Process Assessment, Health Care; D019984:Quality Indicators, Health Care; D014481:United States