The American College of Physicians is offering a new set of online quality measurement tools to its 120,000 members. They're designed to help physicians figure out and hopefully comply with 26 "starter set" measurements developed by the Ambulatory Care Quality Alliance, a joint effort of the ACP, the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). The starter measurements cover many of the top chronic diseases and conditions managed by office-based physicians: asthma, coronary artery disease, diabetes, depression, falls and heart failure. The AQA program is one more step toward a reimbursement system where physicians are paid on the quality of care.
- see this release [1] for more
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[1] http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-07/acop-aco072706.php