The Joint Commission journal on quality improvement
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Jt Comm J Qual Improv · Aug 1994
Cleveland health quality choice: a model for collaborative community-based outcomes assessment.
Cleveland Health Quality Choice Coalition was established in 1989 as a voluntary, collaborative effort between hospitals, physicians, and purchasers in the Cleveland metropolitan area to assess the quality and efficiency of care in 31 hospitals. The objective of the project is to produce high-fidelity comparative hospital outcomes data that support market-based health care reform strategies. ⋯ The early success of Cleveland Health Quality Choice Coalition demonstrates that it is possible for purchasers and providers to cooperatively assess the quality of health care on a regional basis and to institute a market-based strategy for health care reform. Further evaluation is needed to determine how performance data being reported are used by purchasers in selecting health care and by hospitals for quality improvement.