I’ve complained before about the uselessness of traditional industrial QI/Metrics in primary care. There is now more proof in the literature. The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) is the annual comprehensive assessment of American health. They enroll about 10,000 people each study year and ask them a thousand questions,...
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A key part of Obamacare is not going so well. But before I continue, I assume that some of my readers won’t know some of the acronyms, so I’ll define them. An ACO is an Accountable Care Organization, which was created in the PPACA (Obamacare). The spirit of an ACO was...
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