Showing posts with label integrated. Show all posts
Showing posts with label integrated. Show all posts

Friday, 5 December 2014

Reimagining Quality Measurement

"quality measurement should be integrated with care delivery rather than existing as a parallel, separate enterprise; it should acknowledge and address the challenges that confront doctors every day — common and uncommon diseases, patients with multiple coexisting illnesses, and efficient management of symptoms even when diagnosis is uncertain; and it should reflect individual patients' preferences and goals for treatment and health outcomes and enable ongoing development of evidence on treatment heterogeneity"

Reimagining Quality Measurement
EA McGlynn, EC Schneider, EA Kerr
New England Journal of Medicine 2014; 371:2150-2153

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Monday, 10 November 2014

Care Act 2014: statutory guidance for implementation

"The guidance associated with the Care Act set out how the Act will work in practice when the first phase of the reforms comes into effect next year."

Care Act 2014: statutory guidance for implementation
Department of Health
October 2014

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