The non-profit group, Consumer-Purchaser Disclosure Project, has released 10 criteria for meaningful and usable measures of healthcare provider performance.
The Disclosure Project created these criteria to help produce meaningful and "more ambitious" standards of care. The criteria are:
1. Make consumer and purchaser needs a priority in performance measurement.
2. Use patient and family feedback to measure performance.
3. Create a "dashboard" of measures that provides a complete picture of the care patients receive.
4. Focus measurement on areas of care where the potential to improve health outcomes and increase the effectiveness and efficiency of care is greatest.
5. Ensure that measures generate the most valuable information possible.
6. Require that all patients fitting appropriate clinical criteria be included in the measure population.
7. Assess whether treatment recommendations are followed.
8. De-emphasize documentation (check-the-box) measures.
9. Measure the performance of providers at all levels (e.g., individual physicians, medical groups, ACOs).
10. Collect performance measurement data efficiently.
The Disclosure Project also provides opportunities where healthcare providers can fulfill each of the described criterion.
To read The Disclosure Project's criteria in full, click here.
The Disclosure Project created these criteria to help produce meaningful and "more ambitious" standards of care. The criteria are:
1. Make consumer and purchaser needs a priority in performance measurement.
2. Use patient and family feedback to measure performance.
3. Create a "dashboard" of measures that provides a complete picture of the care patients receive.
4. Focus measurement on areas of care where the potential to improve health outcomes and increase the effectiveness and efficiency of care is greatest.
5. Ensure that measures generate the most valuable information possible.
6. Require that all patients fitting appropriate clinical criteria be included in the measure population.
7. Assess whether treatment recommendations are followed.
8. De-emphasize documentation (check-the-box) measures.
9. Measure the performance of providers at all levels (e.g., individual physicians, medical groups, ACOs).
10. Collect performance measurement data efficiently.
The Disclosure Project also provides opportunities where healthcare providers can fulfill each of the described criterion.
To read The Disclosure Project's criteria in full, click here.
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