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Health Care & Hospital Law

Mar. 3, 2011

Performance Measures: The Infrastructure of Quality and Safety Efforts under Health Care Reform

A new landscape of performance measures that attorneys should know. By Kimberly Lovett of the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Bryan A. Liang of the California Western School of Law.


By Kimberly Lovett and Bryan A. Liang


Provider performance measurement is here to stay. With programmatic requirements enacted under health care reform, as well as the high degree of public interest in health care performance transparency, there is a growing and evolving movement to measure quality of care and subsequently report that quality performance to the public. Patients, payers, and government are searching for methods to measure and compare the quality o...

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