title: Driving Improvement in Health and Health Care: Setting Metrics for Medicaid Outcomes.
abstract: Clinical performance metrics are the foundation of the design and ultimate performance of North Carolina's Medicaid reform plan. This commentary describes the general approach of the state's Department of Health and Human Services in setting metrics, including goals, assumptions, and starting principles.
authors.affiliation: senior policy advisor, North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Raleigh, North Carolina; professor, Department of Family Medicine, UNC School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Warren_newton@med.unc.edu.
authors.forename: Warren P
authors.initials: WP
authors.lastname: Newton
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D006801:Humans; D008484:Medicaid; D009657:North Carolina; D014481:United States