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Reading: https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/brief/measuring-the-quality-of-healthcare-in-the-u-s/

Explain how the article is critical of the scores of quality measures developed by accreditation organizations, regulators, payers, and healthcare providers.
The article states, In addition to looking at health outcomes, another way to measure healthcare system quality is to focus on what happens in clinical settings: In this sense the article is focusing on the measurement of process measures Can you think of 1-2 process measures that could allow us to understand whether or not clinical care is effective?
What current measures do you think do an effective job in measuring quality?

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