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About Noha Sherif, Nan Tracy Zheng, Qinghua Li, Franziska Rokoske

Qinghua Li, Ph.D., is a health services researcher in the Quality Measurement and Health Policy program at RTI International. Her research focuses on quality of care in post-acute care, long-term care, and end-of-life care settings, measurement of health care processes and patients’ experiences. Dr. Li has extensive research experience in the study of health outcomes and health care utilization for individuals with dementia or mental illnesses, and people at end of life. At RTI, Dr. Li leads teams to develop, test, and implement quality measures for skilled nursing facility and hospice quality reporting programs.

One Step Ahead: A Composite Measure to Capture Critical Hospice and Palliative Care Processes

By | January 13, 2017
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) wants to empower consumers to make informed healthcare decisions. CMS also wants providers to improve the quality of care they provide. One step towards accomplishing both of these goals is by public reporting of quality measures (QM). However, with multiple quality measures focusing on different care processes–all of which… Read More »