Background It is becoming increasingly common to release information about the
performance of hospitals, health professionals or providers, and healthcare organisations …

Background It is becoming increasingly common to publish information about the quality and
performance of healthcare organisations and individual professionals. However, we do not …

Objective To determine the impact of the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing (HVBP) program—
the US pay for performance program introduced by Medicare to incentivize higher quality …

Competency-based medical education (CBME) is an outcomes-based approach to
education and assessment that focuses on what competencies trainees need to learn in …

Quality improvement (QI) attempts to change clinician behavior and, through those changes,
lead to improved patient outcomes. The methodological quality of studies evaluating the …

Historically, quality measurement analyses utilize manual chart abstraction from data
collected primarily for administrative purposes. These methods are resource-intensive, time …

INTRODUCTION Prior studies, using limited data from the Hospital Consumer Assessment
of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) surveys, reported that public reporting …

There is global convergence on the need to transform food systems so that they deliver
nourishment and health for humanity while contributing to reducing the environmental …

Background Variation in CF pulmonary outcomes is multifactorial, but a significant
component appears to be dependent upon differences in CF Center care. Previous …

Background Clinical pharmacy quality indicators are often non-uniform and measure
individual activities not linked to outcomes. Aim To define a consensus agreed …