A team of researchers from Johns Hopkins University set out to calculate how much time and money were devoted to measuring and reporting quality metric data to government and national healthcare ...

This study presents an example of a population health initiative in a limited-resource primary care setting that led to significant improvements in preventive care quality metrics in the context of ...

As the value-based care reimbursement environment grows, there is an increasing interest in linking additional physician compensation to the achievement of quality outcomes as measured by certain ...

Quality metrics are an objective, verifiable number. Unlike subjective data, the number is both quantifiable and can be confirmed. The potential downside to quality metrics is that the data may be ...

With regard to child health, the US consistently ranks below other wealthy nations. Since the 1980s, the child mortality rate in the US has exceeded those of 19 developed nations—including Australia, ...

Medicare Advantage outperformed traditional Medicare on clinical quality measures before and during the COVID-19 pandemic; mid-pandemic, however, traditional Medicare narrowed the gap on some ...

To most webmasters, their site is like their baby. It’s the most beautiful and perfect thing in the whole wide world. The fact is, people get too attached to their site and can’t see ways to improve.

FDA has announced new quality metrics pilot programs that seek industry stakeholder perspective and feedback. FDA’s voluntary pilot programs target companies submitting Type C and Pre-ANDA meeting ...

Table 1 provides a taxonomy of the most commonly used video quality metrics. On the extreme left is subjective Mean Opinion Score (MOS) computed with actual viewers rating videos on a scale from 1 to ...