scholarly journals Social Risk Adjustment in Health Care Performance Measures

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
pp. e208020
Author(s):  
Linda Diem Tran
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Performance Measures ◽  
Risk Adjustment ◽  
Social Risk ◽  
Health Care Performance ◽  
Care Performance

The NQF Scientific Methods Panel: Enhancing the Review and Endorsement Process for Performance Measures

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (6) ◽  
pp. 458-464
Author(s):  
David R. Nerenz ◽  
David Cella ◽  
Lacy Fabian ◽  
Eugene Nuccio ◽  
John Bott ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Performance Measurement ◽  
Performance Measures ◽  
National Quality Forum ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
National Quality ◽  
Technical Issues ◽  
Health Care Performance ◽  
Care Performance

In the summer of 2017, the National Quality Forum (NQF) announced the formation of a Scientific Methods Panel (hereafter referred to as “the Panel”) as part of a redesign of its endorsement process. NQF created the Panel in response to stakeholder request during a Kaizen improvement event held in May 2017. Given the Panel’s role in the endorsement of performance measures used in national payment programs, the objective of this article is to describe the work of the Panel, and to describe its function in the larger context of the NQF measure endorsement process and in the measurement enterprise writ large. This article also serves as an introduction to a series of planned white papers being authored by the panel on specific technical issues in the area of health care performance measurement.

Has Anyone Seen It?

2012 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 189-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dagmar Radin ◽  
Aleksandar Džakula
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Parliamentary Elections ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Sentiment ◽  
Public Opinion Surveys ◽  
Health Care Performance ◽  
Policy Arena ◽  
Care Performance

Over the past decade, public opinion surveys have shown that Croats are deeply dissatisfied with their health care system and asses it to be one of the most important issues. However, health care hardly makes it into any political discourse in Croatia. This study analyzes the results of a public opinion survey conducted before the 2007 parliamentary elections to find out what the public sentiment on health care performance in Croatia is and to analyze the reasons why health care is not addressed by political actors. Evidence suggests that while health care is the most salient issue today, the public often understands it poorly. Thus, in a political environment of competing issues, and given the complexity of tacking health care in the policy arena, politicians strategically avoid discussing the issue.

Evaluating Health Care Performance: Strengths and Limitations of Multilevel Analysis

2007 ◽  
Vol 49 (5) ◽  
pp. 707-718 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alai Tan ◽  
Jean L. Freeman ◽  
Daniel H. Freeman
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Multilevel Analysis ◽  
Health Care Performance ◽  
Care Performance

Imprecise DEA framework for evaluating health-care performance of districts

Kybernetes ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 706-727 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Ertugrul Karsak ◽  
Melis Almula Karadayi
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Performance Evaluation ◽  
Health Care Organizations ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Evaluation Methodology ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Relative Evaluation ◽  
Health Care Performance ◽  
Care Performance

Purpose This paper aims to address performance measurement in the health-care sector, which gains increasing importance for most countries because growing health expenditures and increased quality and competition in the health sector require hospitals to use their resources efficiently. Health policy-makers and health-care managers stress the need for developing a robust performance evaluation methodology for health-care organizations. Design/methodology/approach This paper presents an imprecise data envelopment analysis (DEA) framework for evaluating the health-care performance of 26 districts in Istanbul, a metropolis with nearly 15 million inhabitants. The proposed methodology takes into account both quantitative and qualitative data represented as linguistic variables for performance evaluation. Moreover, this study reckons that weight flexibility in DEA assessments can lead to unrealistic weighting schemes for some inputs and outputs, which are likely to result in overstated efficiency scores for a number of decision-making units (in here, districts). To overcome this problem, a weight restricted imprecise DEA model that constrains weight flexibility in DEA is proposed. Findings The proposed imprecise DEA approach sets forth a more realistic decision methodology for evaluating the relative health-care performance and also enables to determine the best district in terms of health-care performance in Istanbul. Originality/value This paper includes the quality dimension, which has been overlooked in previous studies, into the health-care performance evaluation of districts. Moreover, it circumvents unrealistic weight flexibility which may distort the relative evaluation of health-care performance.

scholarly journals Health care performance comparison using a disease-based approach: The EuroHOPE project

Health Policy ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 112 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 100-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Unto Häkkinen ◽  
Tor Iversen ◽  
Mikko Peltola ◽  
Timo T. Seppälä ◽  
Antti Malmivaara ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Performance Comparison ◽  
Health Care Performance ◽  
Care Performance
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