Vital Signs: Core Metrics for Health and Health Care Prog...
Institute of Medicine / Committee on Core Metrics for Better Hea / McGinnis, J. Michael
Thousands of measures are in use today to assess health and health care in the United States. Although many of these measures provide useful information, their usefulness in either gauging or guiding performance improvement in health and health care is seriously limited by their sheer number, as well as their lack of consistency, compatibility, reliability, focus, and organization. To achieve better health at lower cost, all stakeholders - inc...