Home Research Research Library Clinical Quality Measures in a Post-Pandemic World: Measuring What Matters in Family Medicine (ABFM) Clinical Quality Measures in a Post-Pandemic World: Measuring What Matters in Family Medicine (ABFM) 2020 Author(s) Shuemaker, Jill C, Phillips, Robert L, and Newton, Warren P Topic(s) Role of Primary Care, and Achieving Health System Goals Keyword(s) Measurement, and Quality Of Care Volume Annals of Family Medicine Source Annals of Family Medicine COVID-19 altered the way the American public lived their lives; the way they worked, ate, socialized, traveled, and ultimately received their health care. Family Medicine largely closed its doors to face-to-face preventive and chronic care visits and made a large shift to telephone and online video visits. Ten days after the World Health Organization pronounced that the COVID-19 outbreak was a global pandemic, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma announced that CMS was granting exceptions from reporting requirements, “so the health care delivery system can direct its time and resources toward caring for patients.”15 Suddenly quality reporting requirements were optional, and clinicians who did not submit data would not be penalized, but instead receive neutral payment adjustments. This pause led the ABFM to ask, if current clinical quality measures are not valuable in a pandemic, what does that tell us about what we are measuring? ABFM Research Read all 2013 The primary care extension program: a catalyst for change Go to The primary care extension program: a catalyst for change 2020 Burnout Among Family Physicians by Gender and Age Go to Burnout Among Family Physicians by Gender and Age 2015 Graduates of Teaching Health Centers Are More Likely to Enter Practice in the Primary Care Safety Net Go to Graduates of Teaching Health Centers Are More Likely to Enter Practice in the Primary Care Safety Net 2014 Do Professional Development Programs for Maintenance of Certification (MOC) Affect Quality of Patient Care? Go to Do Professional Development Programs for Maintenance of Certification (MOC) Affect Quality of Patient Care?
Author(s) Shuemaker, Jill C, Phillips, Robert L, and Newton, Warren P Topic(s) Role of Primary Care, and Achieving Health System Goals Keyword(s) Measurement, and Quality Of Care Volume Annals of Family Medicine Source Annals of Family Medicine
ABFM Research Read all 2013 The primary care extension program: a catalyst for change Go to The primary care extension program: a catalyst for change 2020 Burnout Among Family Physicians by Gender and Age Go to Burnout Among Family Physicians by Gender and Age 2015 Graduates of Teaching Health Centers Are More Likely to Enter Practice in the Primary Care Safety Net Go to Graduates of Teaching Health Centers Are More Likely to Enter Practice in the Primary Care Safety Net 2014 Do Professional Development Programs for Maintenance of Certification (MOC) Affect Quality of Patient Care? Go to Do Professional Development Programs for Maintenance of Certification (MOC) Affect Quality of Patient Care?
2013 The primary care extension program: a catalyst for change Go to The primary care extension program: a catalyst for change
2020 Burnout Among Family Physicians by Gender and Age Go to Burnout Among Family Physicians by Gender and Age
2015 Graduates of Teaching Health Centers Are More Likely to Enter Practice in the Primary Care Safety Net Go to Graduates of Teaching Health Centers Are More Likely to Enter Practice in the Primary Care Safety Net
2014 Do Professional Development Programs for Maintenance of Certification (MOC) Affect Quality of Patient Care? Go to Do Professional Development Programs for Maintenance of Certification (MOC) Affect Quality of Patient Care?
