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ArticleJournal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open2024

Why do we need quality measures in emergency medicine?

Shamie Das, Gregg Miller, Christopher Libby, Cameron J Gettel, Elaine Rabin, Michelle Lin

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Article in Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. When Metrics Replace Values: Ethical Concerns in Healthcare Performance Measures.Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine · 2026
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  2. Why do we need quality measures in emergency medicine?Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Shamie DasDepartment of Emergency Medicine Emory University School of Medicine Atlanta Georgia USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7766-3468
Gregg MillerVituity Emeryville California USA.
Christopher LibbyDepartment of Emergency Medicine Cedars Sinai Medical Center Los Angeles California USA.
Cameron J GettelDepartment of Emergency Medicine Yale School of Medicine New Haven Connecticut USA.
Elaine RabinDepartment of Emergency Medicine Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai New York New York USA.
Michelle LinDepartment of Emergency Medicine Stanford University Palo Alto California USA.

Funding

Yale Clinical and Translational Science Award (U Component)UL1TR001863 · NCATS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI John H. Krystal, LUCILA OHNO-MACHADO · 2016 to 2026
$102.9M
PROAACT- Admin SupplementK23HL143042 · NHLBI · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI LIN, MICHELLE P · 2019 to 2023
$1.0M
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR001863NCEZID CDC HHS U54 CK000601NHLBI NIH HHS K23 HL143042
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Quality measures increasingly influence the delivery and reimbursement of care provided in emergency departments. While emergency physicians are accustomed to using quality measures to improve care delivery, payors, including the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), are increasingly adjusting reimbursement to measure performance as a means to bend the cost curve and improve the value of healthcare services. The American College of Emergency Physicians Quality and Patient Safety Committee presents this whitepaper to guide practicing emergency physicians through the policy context of implementing measures in emergency care and understanding its impact reimbursement. This paper summarizes current CMS programs such as the merit-based incentive payment system (MIPS), MIPS value pathways, and alternative payment models and various reporting mechanisms. It is crucial for emergency physicians to understand the quality measure development process, the need for more emergency medicine-specific quality measures, and the growing significance of measure performance in the payment of emergency care.

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CMSemergency medicinepayment reformquality measuresreimbursementvalue‐based care

Identifiers

PMID39697807
PMCPMC11652395

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