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Nursing Measures

Implementation Considerations: Lessons Learned from the Field

Keith Kosel

VHA Inc.

Lillee Gelinas

VHA Inc.

Connie Paxson

VHA Inc.

With today's focus on performance measurement, pay for quality, and other data-driven initiatives in the health care industry, measurement developers and researchers interested in testing these metrics need to keep in mind the needs of those end users that will be tasked with collecting, submitting, and in many cases analyzing the information that flows from these measures. This article will highlight a number of key issues learned from the field and suggest opportunities for research into the design and deployment of these measures.

Key Words: measurement methodology • performance measurement • performance improvement • data management • quality improvement

Medical Care Research and Review, Vol. 64, No. 2 suppl, 82S-103S (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/1077558707299250
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