The Institute for Healthcare Improvement shared four key measurement principles that apply to healthcare reform's triple aim of improving quality, enhancing population health and reducing cost in a report.
The report, "A Guide to Measuring the Triple Aim: Population Health, Experience of Care, and Per Capita Cost," includes suggestions for how hospitals can measure their progress in meeting healthcare reform goals.
The four measurement principles include the following:
• The need for a defined population.
• The need for data over time.
• The need to distinguish between outcome and process measures, and between population and project measures.
• The value of benchmark or comparison data.
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The report, "A Guide to Measuring the Triple Aim: Population Health, Experience of Care, and Per Capita Cost," includes suggestions for how hospitals can measure their progress in meeting healthcare reform goals.
The four measurement principles include the following:
• The need for a defined population.
• The need for data over time.
• The need to distinguish between outcome and process measures, and between population and project measures.
• The value of benchmark or comparison data.
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