TY - JOUR T1 - Hospital value-based purchasing (VBP) program: measurement of quality and enforcement of quality improvement. A1 - Szablowski,Katarzyna M, PY - 2014/3/8/entrez PY - 2014/3/8/pubmed PY - 2014/4/2/medline SP - 49 EP - 51 JF - Connecticut medicine JO - Conn Med VL - 78 IS - 1 N2 - VBP program is a novel medicare payment estimatin tool used to encourage clinical care quality improvement as well as improvement of patient experience as a customer of a health care system. The program utilizes well established tools of measuring clinical care quality and patient satisfaction such as the hospital IQR program and HCAHPS survey to estimate Medicare payments and encourage hospitals to continuosly improve the level of care they provide. SN - 0010-6178 UR - https://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/citation/24600783/Hospital_value_based_purchasing__VBP__program:_measurement_of_quality_and_enforcement_of_quality_improvement_ DB - PRIME DP - Unbound Medicine ER -