TY  - JOUR
T1  - QUality of care—how good is good enough?
AU  - Sox HC, Greenfield S
Y1  - 2010/06/16
N1  - 10.1001/jama.2010.810
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 2403
EP  - 2404
VL  - 303
IS  - 23
N2  - 
According to current practice, a payer judges a physician or a practice organization by the proportion of patients for which the physician adhered to the practice measure. “Good enough” therefore is an adherence rate that exceeds a threshold, which is typically expressed as a percentile of the distribution of adherence rates in a population of clinical practices. For example, in its recognition program, the National Committee for Quality Assurance sets the threshold for passing a measure according to the population-derived adherence rate for the corresponding Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) Health Plan measure (usually at the 70th percentile) (Gregory Pawlson, MD, National Committee for Quality Assurance, e-mail communication, April 2010).

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.2010.810
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2010.810
ER  -