In 1964, when the Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart was asked to describe his test for
obscenity, he stated,“I know it when I see it.” 1 Similarly, do all of us recognize quality work …

While medical and technological advances continue to shape and advance health care,
there has been growing emphasis on translating these advances into improvement in …

Health care is expensive in the United States. There is an increasing focus on value rather
than volume. Accurately measuring quality is a critically important step in determining value …

Study Design. Systematic review. Objective. To elucidate how performance indicators are
currently used in spine surgery. Summary of Background Data. The Patient Protection and …

Your choice of measurements is essential to the success of your clinical practice or
research. In fact, if you do not measure the status and change of your patients, there will be …

OBJECTIVE The Clinician and Group Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and
Systems (CG-CAHPS) is a standardized patient experience survey that is used to evaluate …

Background context Given the unsustainable costs of the US health-care system, health-
care purchasers, payers, and hospital systems are adopting the concept of value-based …

Study Design: Narrative Review. Objectives: The increasing cost of healthcare overall and
for spine surgery, coupled with the growing burden of spine-related disease and rising …

Quality reporting is a rapidly growing area. Each year, new regulations in the US from the
Council of Medicare and Medicaid Services make quality reporting a larger factor in …

VOLUME 15■ NUMBER 4■ APRIL 2014 describes value, the variables that influence it
(quality, costs, and time), and subsequently discusses the tools used and obstacles …