Vital signs : core metrics for health and health care progress / Committee on Core Metrics for Better Health at Lower Cost ; David Blumenthal, Elizabeth Malphrus, and J. Michael McGinnis, editors ; Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.

"Thousands of measures are in use today to assess health and health care in the United States. Although many of these measures provide useful information, their usefulness in either gauging or guiding performance improvement in health and health care is seriously limited by their sheer number, as we...

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Corporate Author:	Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Core Metrics for Better Health at Lower Cost (Author)
Other Authors:	Blumenthal, David, 1948- (Editor), Malphrus, Elizabeth (Editor), McGinnis, J. Michael (Editor)
Language:	English
Published:	Washington D.C. : National Academies Press, [2015]
Subjects:	Medical care > United States > Cost control. Medical statistics. Outcome assessment (Medical care) > United States. Public health records > United States. Health care reform > United States.
Physical Description:	xix, 287 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm Also issued online.
Format:	Book