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Journal of critical care · Dec 2016
Measuring intensive care unit performance after sustainable growth rate reform: An example with the National Quality Forum metrics.
- Albert P Nguyen, Joseph A Hyder, Brendan T Wanta, Henry T Stelfox, and Ulrich Schmidt.
- Department of Anesthesiology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA. Electronic address: Apn019@ucsd.edu.
- J Crit Care. 2016 Dec 1; 36: 81-84.
BackgroundPerformance measurement is essential for quality improvement and is inevitable in the shift to value-based payment. The National Quality Forum is an important clearinghouse for national performance measures in health care in the United States.AimWe reviewed the National Quality Forum library of performance measures to highlight measures that are relevant to critical care medicine, and we describe gaps and opportunities for the future of performance measurement in critical care medicine.ConclusionCrafting performance measures that address core aspects of critical care will be challenging, as current outcome and performance measures have problems with validity. Future quality measures will likely focus on interdisciplinary measures across the continuum of patient care.Copyright © 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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