Thursday, June 6, 2013

Achieving the Potential of Health Care Performance Measures

An analysis of pay for performance.
Their first recommendation directly impacts our stroke world.
1. Decisively move from measuring processes to outcomes.
 This means all those feel good press releases from hospitals that they are gold standard in meeting Joint Commission certification would need to completely change.
Mine would be complete recovery from stroke as a percentage of admitted patients.
 http://www.rwjf.org/en/research-publications/find-rwjf-research/2013/05/achieving-the-potential-of-health-care-performance-measures.html?cid=xem_hcpm5-21-13A&cid
Because right now Joint Commission certification is  almost worthless.
A bloggers take on this;
Finally an important policy paper against P4P 
I disagree, P4P can only help us in the stroke world. 

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