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Performance Measurement: Accelerating Improvement
performance measurement program, 24–25 , 45 , 134–135 , 155 , 185 , 230 , 262
Preventive Quality Indicators, 94
recommendations for research, 14–15 , 114 , 126
Aging, population
care assessment (ACOVE), 119 , 262 , 274 , 302–303 , 313
cost of care and, 20
Alzheimer’s disease, 89
Ambulatory care
current performance measurement programs, 50 , 178–179
information technology implementation, 26
patient perspective, 105–106
starter set of performance measures, 11 , 103–106 , 204–206
Ambulatory care Quality Alliance, 50 , 102 , 103 , 136–137
American Academy of Pediatrics, 267
American Board of Internal Medicine, 51
American Board of Medical Specialties, 25
American College of Cardiology, 190
American Diabetes Association, 51
American Heart Association/American Stroke Association, 51
American Medical Association, 49 , 50 , 179
Anderson/Helms Referral Data Inventory, 262
Antibiotic therapy, 105
Assessing Care of Vulnerable Elders, 119 , 262 , 274 , 302–303 , 313
Asthma, 50 , 104 , 205
Audits of performance measurement system, 3 , 77
data verification, 43
Australia, 52–53
B
Bridges to Excellence, 25 , 51 , 230 , 232 , 265
Brown Atlas of Dying, 289–302
Brown University, 304
C
California Healthcare Foundation, 119 , 262 , 265
Canada, 22
Cancer treatment, 21 , 103–104 , 116–117 , 303–304 , 305–306
Cardiovascular disease, 154 , 155 , 162
Care Management Workgroup, 266–267
Care Transitions. See Transitions, care in
Care Transitions Measure, 257 , 272–273
Case management, 26
Case-mix adjustment in performance measurement, 99–100 , 121 , 192 , 258 , 261 , 269
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 74 , 97
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
capacity to manage national performance measurement system, 65–66
clinical priority areas for quality improvement, 174
composite measures, 93
current performance measurement programs, 40 , 46 , 50 , 51 , 64 , 138–139 , 262
NQCB and, 8–9 , 71–72
performance incentive program, 29
performance measurement program, 41 , 43–44 , 185
public reporting system, 27 , 28
transitional care assessment, 252 , 263–264
Chart review abstraction, 50 , 107 , 152–153 , 269
limitations, 191
opportunities for improvement, 198–199 , 232–233
Chronic illness
clinical priority areas for quality improvement, 173–174 , 175
complication rates, 13
coordination of care, 29
definition, 129
performance measurement, 103 , 104
process measures, 186–188
quality of care assessment framework, 173
shortcomings of current performance measures, 89
shortcomings of health plan designs, 28 , 29
trends, 104
See also Long-term care;
specific disease
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, 89