Combining it into a single index with fuzzy measures of quality would only make the resulting index fuzzier still.
Those reviews apply measures of quality, like patient improvement, patient satisfaction and cost reductions.
"But on a lot of measures of quality of life, the U.S. ranking is far lower.
For more than four years, physicians have been tracking some 60 measures of quality, like medication error rates for their patients, and meeting voluntary cost-reduction goals.
BBC One scores strongly on audience measures of quality and distinctiveness, but not always quite as well as ITV or BBC Two.
The open access community's answer has been to suggest we redefine our measures of quality: rather than use journal title, we measure the quality of an individual paper.
The ultimate goal is to develop specific measures of quality spanning the entire course of care, from diagnosis to cure or death.
Our criteria were simple: find regions with per capita Medicare costs that are low or markedly declining in rank and where federal measures of quality are above average.
UnitedHealthcare, America's biggest insurer by revenue, has linked some hospital payments to measures of quality and efficiency.
This measure, combined with measures of quality, would be used to compute an overall performance score for the hospital.
UnitedHealthcare, a giant health insurer, has already linked some hospital payments to measures of quality and efficiency.
