标题:Purpose, Subject, and Consumer Comment on "Perceived Burden Due to Registrations for Quality Monitoring and Improvement in Hospitals: A Mixed Methods Study"
期刊名称:International Journal of Health Policy and Management
电子版ISSN:2322-5939
出版年度:2022
卷号:11
期号:4
页码:539-543
DOI:10.34172/ijhpm.2022.6495
语种:English
出版社:Kerman University of Medical Sciences
摘要:Zegers and colleagues’ study codifies the perceived burden of quality monitoring and improvement stemming from the work by clinicians of registering (documenting) quality information in the medical record. We agree with Zegers and colleagues’ recommendation that a smaller, more effective and curated set of measures is needed to reduce burden, confusion, and expense. We further note that focusing on validity of clinical evidence behind individual measures is critical, but insufficient. We therefore extend Zegers and colleagues’ work through a pragmatic, tripartite heuristic. To assess the value of and curate a targeted set of performance measures, we propose concentrating on the relationships among three factors: (1) The
purpose of the performance measure, (2) the
subject being evaluated, and (3) the
consumer using information for decision-making. Our proposed tripartite framework lays the groundwork for executing the evidence-based recommendations proposed by Zegers et al, and provides a path forward for more effective healthcare performance-measurement systems.