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Some Priorities for the Future
- Be explicit about the perspective, output, and inputs used in measure:
- What's the purpose, approach?
- Develop measures to fill important gaps
- When is it most important to incorporate quality measures?
- Measures that use health outcomes as outputs
- Measures for units of analysis other than hospital
- Evaluate whether efficiency measures are scientifically sound, feasible, actionable
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