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Improving the Performance of Performance Reporting and Quality-Based Purchasing Initiatives

Award Year: 2004 Investigator: R. Adams Dudley
Health care performance measurement and reporting is receiving a great deal of attention as a way to encourage providers to deliver better care. Yet several murky areas remain about what to measure, how to measure it, and how best to use health care performance measures. R. Adams Dudley, M.D., M.B.A., considers several key policy and technical issues in his project, Improving the Performance of Performance Reporting and Quality-Based Purchasing Initiatives.
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Categories:
Payment Methods, Performance and Outcome Measurement

Conceptualizing the Social, Economic, and Cultural Issues Underlying Health Care Outcomes

Award Year: 1999 Investigator: Thomas Croghan, Bernice Pescosolido
This project conceptualizes the social, economic, and cultural factors that may influence health outcomes; addresses the impact they have on instruments used to measure outcomes; and assesses whether and how much these issues matter. Drs.
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Categories:
Performance and Outcome Measurement