title: Leveraging improvement in quality and value in health care through a clinical performance measure framework: a recommendation of the American College of Physicians.
abstract: Policy maker efforts to evaluate the quality and costs of health care have stimulated a proliferation of disparate performance measures. This cacophony of performance measures creates confusion over which measures are applicable at which level of the health care system, limiting their effective application for accountability and improvements in patient care. The American College of Physicians (ACP) has created a clinical performance measurement framework to provide direction to policy makers and measure developers for future performance measure development and application. The ACP believes that this clinical performance measurement framework is one way to help promote transformational change in patient care through judicious application of performance measures. Recommendation. The ACP recommends that policy makers and measure developers adopt this clinical performance measurement framework to promote transformational change and improve the quality of health care in the United States.
authors.affiliation: American College of Physicians, Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA. lgardner@acponline.org
authors.forename: Lea Anne
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Gardner
authors.forename: Vincenza
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Snow
authors.forename: Kevin B
authors.initials: KB
authors.lastname: Weiss
authors.forename: Gail
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Amundson
authors.forename: Eric
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Schneider
authors.forename: Donald
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Casey
authors.forename: E Rodney
authors.initials: ER
authors.lastname: Hornbake
authors.forename: Scott
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Manaker
authors.forename: L Gregory
authors.initials: LG
authors.lastname: Pawlson
authors.forename: Preston
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Reynolds
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sha
authors.forename: David
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authors.lastname: Baker
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D011050:Policy Making; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D019984:Quality Indicators, Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012955:Societies, Medical; D014481:United States