Comments on: My position on performance measures

By: Michael Kirsch, M.D.

Michael Kirsch, M.D. — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:13:27 +0000

Measuring medical performance is a joke. The government and insurance companies have no reliable method to measure medical quality, so they rely instead on easily measurable events, that have little meaning. These are poor surrogates. Just because medical quality can’t be easily assesed doesn’t mean we should use check-lists and other measurable quantifiable events. How do we know if a sculpture is work of art? If we don’t have a good method to do so, would we weigh the sculpture just because it is easy to do so?

By: Sallie

Sallie — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:59:25 +0000

I’m a nurse I think performance measures are similar to protocols. Overreliance on either or as a substitution for critical thinking is just plain “dumb”.

By: Oskie94

Oskie94 — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:48:14 +0000

The current iteration of “performance measures” has more to do with the Maoist “re-education” of physicians that any real interest in quality per se.

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Web Media Daily – July 8, 2009 | Reinventing Yourself... — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:32:01 +0000

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