From Bryan Liang and Kim Lovett: Quality care opportunities: refining physician performance measurement in ambulatory care

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22775072

Am J Manag Care. 2012 Jun 1;18(6):e212-6.

Quality care opportunities: refining physician performance measurement in ambulatory care.

Lovett KM, Liang BA.

Source

Southern California Permanente Medical Group-Family Medicine, 1630 E Main St, El Cajon, CA 92012. E-mail: klovett@ucsd.edu.

Abstract

Accurately measuring the quality of care that ambulatory care physicians provide is an important endeavor. Current measurement instruments, while offering useful information about care systems, remain suboptimal for the measurement of individual physician performance. We offer the quality care opportunities model of ambulatory care physician performance measurement, which may address issues with current instruments while also offering useful information about efficiency and productivity for individual physicians and delivery systems from a patient-centered perspective.