The National Quality Forum issued guidance on reducing unnecessary variations in healthcare quality measures, with the aim of making measurement more consistent and useful in enhancing patient care. A ...

(HealthDay News) – A variation measure, estimated from an automated algorithm of the grayscale variation within a mammogram, correlates with the risk of breast cancer as strongly or more so than ...

An analysis commissioned by the National Quality Forum identified 1,367 quality measures used by 48 state and regional programs — but only 509 of them were distinct. The more than 800 remaining ...

Background. Health adjusted life years (HALYs) are used for estimating burden of disease and as outcomes in cost-effectiveness analyses of medical care and public health interventions. Objectives. The ...

Antibiotic prescribing has become viewed as a patient safety and quality-of-care issue. The authors analyzed quality measures related to appropriate antibiotic prescribing and testing.

As healthcare providers wade through hundreds of often burdensome reportable quality measures, a new National Quality Forum study offers guidance on reducing variation and repetition. In 2013, NQF ...