Quality of Care Measurement

Catalog description

Emphasizes the concept and measurement issues involved in assessing and improving the quality of health care. Students will become acquainted with definitions of quality of care and with a broad range of measures and methods used in public reporting and outcomes research. The policy dimensions of quality of care measurement and improvement will be discussed. Course content will be useful to those interested in outcomes research or research on quality of care, and to those who will assume responsibility for quality of care measurement and improvement programs in public health and/or health care organizations.