For those of you who may have missed it, in this month's interesting issue of Health Affairs, Lawrence Casalino, MD, and his team of researchers from Weill Cornell Medical College reported that ...

Ensuring excellent quality and outcomes is the essential goal of medical care. To achieve it, a multitude of quality metrics have been added to clinicians’ work. They include things such as ...

The evolution of health care quality metrics over the preceding decades illustrates an enduring commitment toward enhancing patient outcomes, refining the structure of health care delivery, and ...

It has been 10 years since the Triple Aim was expanded to the Quadruple Aim (QA) to include “clinician well-being in the workplace” as a core health policy goal. This change came in response to the ...

There are several metrics we prioritize. Our highest priorities are outcomes of quality, and metrics that reduce cost. The most important metric, therefore, is readmissions. We are cognizant of ...

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 ...

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 ...

As the new manufacturing engineer for the stapler production line, you find yourself shifting through quality data to get a better understanding of the defect rates involved. One of the reasons you ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Data quality in the modern economy, where data-driving action is critical to business ...

Although many quality control (QC) methods have been developed to improve the quality of single-nucleotide variants (SNVs) in SNV-calling, QC methods for use subsequent to single-nucleotide ...

Of course you like them; you hired them. And of course you're rooting for them – they work on your behalf every day. If your small business is like many others, you run a tightly knit operation that ...