TY  - JOUR
T1  - TEnsion between quality measurement, public quality reporting, and pay for performance
AU  - Farmer SA, Black B, Bonow RO
Y1  - 2013/01/23
N1  - 10.1001/jama.2012.191276
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 349
EP  - 350
VL  - 309
IS  - 4
N2  - 
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.

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.2012.191276
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2012.191276
ER  -