PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Rebecca S. Etz
AU  - Martha M. Gonzalez
AU  - E. Marshall Brooks
AU  - Kurt C. Stange
TI  - Less AND More Are Needed to Assess Primary Care
AID  - 10.3122/jabfm.2017.01.160209
DP  - 2017 Jan 01
TA  - The Journal of the American Board of Family
                Medicine
PG  - 13--15
VI  - 30
IP  - 1
4099  - http://www.jabfm.org/content/30/1/13.short
4100  - http://www.jabfm.org/content/30/1/13.full
SO  - J Am Board Fam Med2017 Jan 01; 30
AB  - Significant federal investment is now being directed toward lessening the burden of clinical quality measurement; at the same time, there is growing recognition that current measures are inadequate to capture the domains of primary care that result in improved person and population health at sustainable cost. Our study reveals a significant gap between the universe of what is measured and those elements most critical to good quality primary care, indicating that the important efforts to reduce measurement burden must be accompanied by efforts to increase the relevance of measures to domains of care that affect patient-centered and community health outcomes.