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ArticleHealth policy (Amsterdam, Netherlands)2014

Governing healthcare through performance measurement in Massachusetts and the Netherlands.

Philip J Van der Wees, Maria W G Nijhuis-van der Sanden, Ewout van Ginneken, John Z Ayanian, Eric C Schneider, Gert P Westert

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Article in Health policy (Amsterdam, Netherlands), 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors.

Philip J Van der WeesScientific Institute for Quality of Healthcare, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, P.O. Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Electronic address: philip.vanderwees@radboudumc.nl.
Maria W G Nijhuis-van der SandenScientific Institute for Quality of Healthcare, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, P.O. Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Electronic address: ria.nijhuis-vandersanden@radboudumc.nl.
Ewout van GinnekenBerlin University of Technology, Department of Health Care Management, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623 Berlin, Germany. Electronic address: ewout.vanginneken@tu-berlin.de.
John Z AyanianDepartment of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, United States. Electronic address: ayanian@hcp.med.harvard.edu.
Eric C SchneiderRAND Boston, 20 Park Plaza, Suite 920, Boston, MA 02116, United States. Electronic address: eschneid@rand.org.
Gert P WestertScientific Institute for Quality of Healthcare, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, P.O. Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Electronic address: gert.westert@radboudumc.nl.

Funding

HARVARD CLINICAL AND TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCE CENTER (UL1)UL1RR025758 · NCRR · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI NADLER, LEE MARSHALL · 2008 to 2011
$91.4M
NCRR NIH HHS UL1 RR025758
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Massachusetts and the Netherlands have implemented comprehensive health reforms, which have heightened the importance of performance measurement. The performance measures addressing access to health care and patient experience are similar in the two jurisdictions, but measures of processes and outcomes of care differ considerably. In both jurisdictions, the use of health outcomes to compare the quality of health care organizations is limited, and specific information about costs is lacking. New legislation in both jurisdictions led to the establishment of public agencies to monitor the quality of care, similar mandates to make the performance of health care providers transparent, and to establish a shared responsibility of providers, consumers and insurers to improve the quality of health care. In Massachusetts a statewide mandatory quality measure set was established to monitor the quality of care. The Netherlands is stimulating development of performance measures by providers based on a mandatory framework for developing such measures. Both jurisdictions are expanding the use of patient-reported outcomes to support patient care, quality improvement, and performance comparisons with the aim of explicitly linking performance to new payment incentives.

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Quality Indicators, Health CareDelivery of Health CareHealth Care ReformHealth Insurance ExchangesHumansMassachusettsNetherlandsOutcome Assessment, Health CareQuality Assurance, Health CareQuality ImprovementQuality of Health CareHealth care quality assessmentHealth care reformQuality indicators

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PMID24138729
PMCPMC4744871

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