title: The Missing Ingredient In Quality Measurement.
abstract: The measures most often used today to assess care quality are process measures. Actual outcomes, of course, are harder to measure than whether a certain action has been taken-checking the feet of a patient with diabetes, for example. But many experts don't think process measures get at the heart of quality.
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Reinke
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D010348:Patient Care Team; D019984:Quality Indicators, Health Care; D014481:United States