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I'd like to thank the authors for their work and for helping forward the conversation in metrics and quality measures. Having followed the work of Dr Wasson in this arena, I'm glad to see additional research that will hopefully be additive to his and others quest for true measurements of caring for people that actually helps improve quality and guide cost reduction.
As a busy clinical primary care physician, it...
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We thank Dr. Armstrong for her interest in and support of our work on the Person-Centered Primary Care measure.
The use of the word "parsimonious" in our article refers to parsimonious theory and the principle of parsimony, sometimes referred to as Occam's razor. Within research and science, the principle of parsimony is based on limiting assumptions and limiting unnecessary elements when identifying a scientifi...
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The article by Etz et al. is a well done study which adds to what we know about what constitutes comprehensive and effective primary care. I was confused however by the repeated use of the word 'parsimonious' in the methods, results and conclusions sections of the abstract. 'Parsimonious' as I understand it is has a negative connotation - and according to the Online Merriam Webster dictionary is an adjective meaning "unwi...
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Etz et al. are to be congratulated for their tour de force entitled: A New Comprehensive Measure of High-Value Aspects of Primary Care. (1) I was asked to comment and emphasize that this new multi-item measure was associated with a very brief "What Matters Index" (or WMI in their text): a measure that is strongly associated with patients' quality of life, explicitly guides care, and predicts future costly emergency and h...
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It is exciting to consider an objective measure concerned with the aspects of medicine that patients and physicians value most. This kind of a measure gets me and what I want to create and see in my practice.
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The US health care system spends too much time measuring processes and minutia in an attempt to get a handle on costs and quality. Much of this burden is focused on a very stressed primary care workforce, diverting precious effort from patient care.
Quality measurement is a good idea given the amount of waste and the opportunities for improvement exposed in many studies, yet our current paradigm of quality mea...
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