Clinical Performance Measures Address Underuse and Overuse of Care in Healthcare Settings

News Medical - Cites a study co-authored by Brenda Sirovich, associate professor of medicine, community and family medicine, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, recently published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine. The study examined 16 national collections of clinical performance measures and found that more than 90 percent of 521 outpatient measures targeted underuse of care and only 7 percent addressed overuse of care.