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Government Quality Measures: First Do No Harm
Author(s) -
Lewis Julia B.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
seminars in dialysis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.899
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1525-139X
pISSN - 0894-0959
DOI - 10.1111/sdi.12418
Subject(s) - medicine , harm , government (linguistics) , do no harm , quality (philosophy) , environmental health , psychiatry , law , philosophy , linguistics , epistemology , political science
A technical expert panel ( TEP ) was convened to evaluate all available literature in the area of bone and mineral metabolism and advise the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services on the creation and collection of quality measures. The proposed quality measures were evaluated for importance, usability, feasibility, and scientific acceptability. All are important parameters to avoid unintended harmful consequences of a quality measure causing harm to patients or to the delivery of their health care.