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Time to curb measurement mania in health care?

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In the light of the COVID-19 pandemic, an article by J. Michael McWilliams, M.D., in NEJM Catalyst notes how the pace of health-care quality improvement in the United States has been slow, and so he writes: “After two decades of efforts relying largely on quality measurement and performance-linked payment incentives, we need new ideas and new conversations. As revealed by health care workers’ response to the Covid-19 pandemic, professionalism in health care may be an underused resource.”

He suggests that “Reframing quality improvement around the linchpin of care delivery — physician agency — could provide much-needed direction by elucidating strategies that address problems of information or motivation when professionals act as agents on their patients’ behalf. These strategies need not rely on measures.”

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