This newsletter looks at different ways that organizations are measuring the performance of health systems and health services. In public health today there is a strong drive to identify, promote, and reward high-quality care that produces real outcomes. The tools for doing so are improving rapidly, as is the investment in defining standard indicators, introducing appropriate methods, and developing innovative mechanisms that permit the use of data to examine the effectiveness of different interventions, programs, providers, and organizations.
Though the factors driving the increased interest in outcomes evaluation vary between U.S. and international settings, common forces include the urgency of containing costs, the desire to identify effective practices, and the call for standardized ways to measure and reward performance by funding agencies. This issue reports on the challenges of defining and measuring outcomes of health interventions, and the innovative approaches different organizations are taking to address them.
Evaluating Health Outcomes
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