Collaborative Principles for Performance Measures
Collaborative Principles for Performance Measures
Setting a clear course for future performance measurement became an immediate task for the Performance Measurement Coordinating Council, a collaborative of the National Committee for Quality Assurance, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, and the American Medical Accreditation Program of the American Medical Association.
Even before the three groups named their members to the council, they drafted guiding principles, which state this focus for the collaboration:
4 Determination of the priority content areas for which measures that are applicable at the practitioner, provider organization, and plan levels should be identified or developed.
4 Identification of measures that meet multiple purposes for which performance measurement is conducted.
4 Integration of measurement among practitioner, provider organization, and plan levels in complex organizations (e.g., health plans, provider-sponsored organizations).
4 Agreement on the data elements necessary for each measure and on the definition of each data element, toward the goal of standardizing performance measurement.
4 Articulation of principles to govern risk adjustment.
4 Definition of methods for assessing and ensuring data quality.
4 Identification of principles to guide appropriate use of measurement data.
4 Identification of opportunities for sponsors to work together to develop and test measures and data collection mechanisms.
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