Agreement and compliance with process measures proposed by the AASLD Practice Metrics Committee: An Italian perspective

In a recent study [1], the Practice Metrics Committee of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) proposed a set of evidence-based quality measures for adult patients with cirrhosis, to be used for care quality evaluation. The system encompasses 26 process measures, 7 clinical outcome measures, and 13 patient-reported outcome measures and, as the authors indicate in the discussion, is not yet ready for application. In order to evaluate how it would be perceived by liver specialists in a different country, the Italian Association for the Study of the Liver (AISF) translated the 26 process measures statements [1] and distributed them to all active members (n  = 668), who were asked if they agreed/did not agree with each statement, and in which proportion of patients (%) they had applied the procedure over the previous month.
Source: Digestive and Liver Disease - Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Tags: Correspondence Source Type: research