RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Less AND More Are Needed to Assess Primary Care
JF The Journal of the American Board of Family
                Medicine
JO J Am Board Fam Med
FD American Board of Family Medicine
SP 13
OP 15
DO 10.3122/jabfm.2017.01.160209
VO 30
IS 1
A1 Etz, Rebecca S.
A1 Gonzalez, Martha M.
A1 Brooks, E. Marshall
A1 Stange, Kurt C.
YR 2017
UL http://www.jabfm.org/content/30/1/13.abstract
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.