RT Journal
A1 Farmer SA, Black B, Bonow RO
T1 TEnsion between quality measurement, public quality reporting, and pay for performance
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 2013
FD January 23
VO 309
IS 4
SP 349
OP 350
DO 10.1001/jama.2012.191276
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2012.191276
AB 
Accurate measures of outcomes are necessary to improve the quality of US health care and address geographic, socioeconomic, and racial/ethnic variations in care quality. However, 2 major initiatives that seek to improve quality—public reporting of outcomes and pay for performance (P4P)—have the potential to reduce the reliability of the administrative data on which they are often based and generate spurious estimates of performance.