An introduction to basic quality metrics for practicing radiologists.

INTRODUCTION The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 is transforming the delivery of health care in the United States from a volumebased, fee-for-service model to one that aims to reward the delivery of value-added care [1]. Currently, a majority of radiology practices use an array of process metrics to measure and manage their performance; however, soon they will need to embrace emerging, to-be-defined metrics that measure value and how radiologists contribute to health care costs and outcomes. In this brief review, we describe current and anticipated future metrics that will be used to manage radiologic services.

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