As the US charts its course through the next political era, it is crucial that we boldly allocate resources and prioritize what truly impacts patients. When faced with complexity, feasibility concerns ...

Medicare’s approach to quality assurance has significantly changed over the years. Starting with cost monitoring measures, it now ensures Medicare beneficiaries receive high quality, safe, and ...

The National Committee for Quality Assurance recently published their 2017 Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set quality measures for colorectal cancer screening, which included Exact ...

A new study that examined six ways of measuring staff variability in US nursing homes highlights specific tools regulators could use to refine how they rate staffing for consumers. The findings showed ...

When it comes to improving quality measure performance, too many providers continue to respond to fire alarms while neglecting what’s setting those alarms off, a leading MDS expert is warning. “We ...

A newly developed quality performance measure that tracks completion of colorectal cancer (CRC) screening with a colonoscopy within 6 months of an abnormal stool-based screening test (SBT) in adults ...

New guidelines introduce quality indicators like bowel preparation adequacy and sessile serrated lesion detection rates for colonoscopy. The adenoma detection rate (ADR) threshold increased from 30% ...