title: Measuring Value in Health Care: The Times, They Are A Changin'.
abstract: Policy makers struggle to measure value in health care, and yet there is the recurring question: Is our present system of quality metrics too costly and burdensome? We need to develop measures promoting shared accountability across settings and providers, identify and develop meaningful outcome measures, and reduce the burden on providers of data collection.
authors.affiliation: president, AccessCare, Morrisville, North Carolina swegner@ncaccesscare.org.
authors.forename: Steven E
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Wegner
mesh_terms: D003625:Data Collection; D018166:Health Care Reform; D006291:Health Policy; D006801:Humans; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D064872:Patient Care Bundles; D019984:Quality Indicators, Health Care; D014481:United States