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Connecticut medicine · Jan 2014
Hospital value-based purchasing (VBP) program: measurement of quality and enforcement of quality improvement.
- Katarzyna M Szablowski.
- Department of Pharmacy Services, Hartford Hospital, Hartford, USA. katarzyna.szablowski@hhchealth.org
- Conn Med. 2014 Jan 1; 78 (1): 49-51.
AbstractVBP program is a novel medicare payment estimatin tool used to encourage clinical care quality improvement as well as improvement of patient experience as a customer of a health care system. The program utilizes well established tools of measuring clinical care quality and patient satisfaction such as the hospital IQR program and HCAHPS survey to estimate Medicare payments and encourage hospitals to continuosly improve the level of care they provide.
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