Index

AAAHC see Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Healthcare AAOS see American Association of Orthopedic Surgeons ABC see activity-based costing ACA see Affordable Care Act access to healthcare see health and healthcare equity accountability cost and efficiency, 85-87 diagnostic safety, 188, 194-195, 195 future of quality measurement, 251 integrating performance measurement into payment policy, 166, 171 measures of quality, 50, 58 patient-reported outcomes, 114-115 patient safety, 93 quality management, 14, 26, 28 using performance data for quality improvement, 153, 160-161 workforce development, 228-229 Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Healthcare (AAAHC), 25 accreditation and certification clinical quality, 42 data requirements for valid quality measurement, 69 evolution of healthcare quality measurement, 5-6 patient safety, 92-93 quality management, 24-26 workforce development, 230-231 accuracy data requirements for valid quality measurement, 65 measures of quality, 57 ACEP see American College of Emergency Physicians ACG see American College of Gastroenterology ACOG see American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology ACP see American College of Physicians activity-based costing (ABC), 78-79 ADA see Americans with Disabilities Act adaptive measures, 118 administrative data see insurance and claims data admission, discharge, and transfer (ADT) systems, 247 advanced alternative payment models (advanced APM), 232 adverse events (AE) diagnostic safety, 191 patient safety, 91-92, 95-100 Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Health Care Industry, 93-94 Advisory Council for Health Care Quality, 93-94 advocacy groups, 23, 166 AE see adverse events Affordable Care Act (ACA), 8 Agency for Healthcare Policy and Research (AHCPR), 7 Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) clinical quality, 34 diagnostic safety, 192 evolution of healthcare quality measurement, 7-9 health and healthcare equity, 129, 130, 132, 134 integrating performance measurement into payment policy, 165, 170, 172 patient-reported outcomes, 118-119 patient safety, 92, 94 aggregated data cost and efficiency, 78-80, 81 health and healthcare equity, 138 using performance data for quality improvement, 160 AHA see American Heart Association AHPCR see Agency for Healthcare