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Expert Commentary

The National Quality Measures Clearinghouse™ (NQMC), sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, provides an Expert Commentary feature with access to editorial insights on current issues of importance to the respective clearinghouses and to the guideline and measure fields in general.

Recent Commentary

PERSPECTIVE (February 8, 2010)

New Directions for Health Care Information Technology
By: William W. Stead, MD
Herbert S. Lin, PhD

November 2009

A Selection of Statistical Process Control Tools Used in Monitoring Health Care Performance
By: Stephen Schmaltz, PhD

October 2009

Envisioning the Next Generation of Performance Measures for Ambulatory Care
By: Stephen D. Persell, MD, MPH

September 2009

National Quality Measurement Systems for Assessment of Nursing Home Care
By: Ning Jackie Zhang, MD, PhD

August 2009

On Quality Measurement, Babies, and Bathwater
By: Robert M. Wachter, MD

Electronic Health Records in a Large, Integrated Health System: It's Automatic....NOT! At Least, Not Yet.
By: Jed Weissberg, MD

July 2009

Why Are There No Efficiency Measures in the National Quality Measures Clearinghouse?
By: Peter S. Hussey, PhD
Elizabeth A. McGlynn, PhD

June 2009

User Perspectives: An Overview of the Clearinghouse Survey Results
By: The National Guideline and National Quality Measures Clearinghouse Management Team

May 2009

Evaluating Evidence in the Development of Performance Measures
By: Rebecca A. Kresowik, BLS
Timothy F. Kresowik, MD

April 2009

Hospital Process Measures: Only One Piece of the Quality Improvement Puzzle
By: Rachel M. Werner, MD, PhD

March 2009

Accessing Clinical Information to Enrich Performance Measurement: The Wisconsin Experience
By: Christopher Queram, MA

About Our Process

Expert Commentaries are authored by the NQMC/NGC Editorial Board and/or by other experts working in conjunction with our board. Our Editorial Board is diverse in terms of their clinical expertise, geographical representation, and stakeholder affiliation.