title: Common performance measures: worthy goal or unrealistic aim?
abstract: The American Hospital Association's initiative brings issue of common performance measures front and center. Organizations seem to be jockeying for position of pre-eminence. Having one set of standards would ease pressure on time-pressed staffs.
mesh_terms: D000573:American Hospital Association; D006761:Hospitals / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D019984:Quality Indicators, Health Care; D014481:United States