Dana Buntrock, an architecture professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of "Japanese Architecture as a Collaborative Process" (Spon Press, 2001), said she once believed that quality was tied to wealth.
"Quality is tied to quantity," he said.
The reality of these specific qualities is tied to us.
A large number of quality companies are tied up in private equity or venture capital portfolios, Salveson said, and as those sponsors look for an exit opportunity they will need to use capital markets in many cases.
Indeed, our analysis suggests that the perceptions of health care quality and safety are tied to much more endemic problems, such as corruption, low transparency and income inequality.
But although "door-to-balloon" times have become a standard metric of quality of care, and are tied to reimbursement by Medicare and Medicaid, speed may not be the only important measure.
Some readmissions are clearly tied to bad quality care, but others are tied to the fact that some patients are just really sick.
Although EPRP quality measures for falls exist, they are not in the top tier of quality measures for which results are tied to financial and non-financial incentives (e.g., prestige) to senior managers.
Doing so can help them increase their reimbursements, which are tied to quality measures under the Affordable Care Act, Hamilton points out.
Fraud and abuse in new care models is a genuine risk as more money moves away from fee-for-service into alternative payment models: CMS recently announced that an estimated 30percentt of Medicare payments are tied to quality and value through alternative payment models.
