Subcommittee on Creating
a Quality Improvement Environment

Membership:

• Mary Wakefield, Ph.D., Chair
• Betty Bednarczyk
• Donald Berwick, M.D.
• Gerald McEntee
• Phillip Nudelman, Ph.D.
• Herbert Pardes, M.D.
• Christopher Queram
• Robert Ray

Issues of Framework for the Subcommittee:

• relationship of performance measurement and quality oversight systems to the quality improvement activities of health care organizations and providers
• ethical guidelines and professional standards for the health care industry
• enhancement of practitioner and health care worker performance through education, training and certification
• organizational systems and processes to promote quality improvement, e.g., clinical information systems, clinical decision support systems, provider profiling, balanced financial incentives

Background Papers (see Meetings section of website)

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