TJC2023A Note for "Appendix D - Glossary of Terms"

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Glossary terms were updated to align with CMS IQR Manual Version 5.13.

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Appendix D, Glossary of Terms and Acronyms
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clinical performance measure The National Quality Forum (NQF) describes performance measures as a way to calculate whether and how often a healthcare system does what it should. Measures are based on scientific evidence about processes, outcomes, perceptions, or systems that relate to high quality care. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) considers high quality care to include effective, safe, efficient, patient-centered, equitable, and timely care. Performance measures are also used by health payers, such as CMS, to incentivize providers to improve quality of care.

national hospital inpatient quality measure Quality measures are tools that help us measure or quantify healthcare processes, outcomes, patient perceptions, and organizational structure and/or systems that are associated with the ability to provide high-quality health care and/or that relate to one or more quality goals for health care. These goals include effective, safe, efficient, patient-centered, equitable, and timely care.