Increasing demands for quality measurement.

Robert J. Panzer; Richard S. Gitomer; William H. Greene; Patricia Reagan Webster; Kevin R. Landry; Charles A. Riccobono

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Increasing demands for quality measurement.

November 27, 2013

Panzer RJ, Gitomer RS, Greene WH, et al. JAMA. 2013;310(18):1971-80.

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This commentary relates challenges to meaningful and accurate quality measurement and makes recommendations to augment health care systems to improve adoption and use of quality measures.

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