Author Archives: Amarilys Bernacet, Ye Zhang, Ryan Nguyen, Musetta Leung, Laura Smith

About Amarilys Bernacet, Ye Zhang, Ryan Nguyen, Musetta Leung, Laura Smith

Laura M. Smith is a senior health services researcher and the director of RTI’s Quality Measurement and Health Policy Program. She has more than 15 years of research experience including 10 years in leadership teams managing large multidisciplinary teams providing support to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services over the full range of quality measure development and implementation activities. Dr. Smith has provided senior scientific leadership for multiple cross-setting post-acute care measures developed and implemented for national quality reporting programs.

Potential effects of COVID-19 on health care utilization and quality measures

By | September 17, 2020
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What are the potential impacts of COVID-19 on health care utilization? How will changes in healthcare use impact quality measures? Researchers are asking many key questions to understand the impacts of COVID-19. It is clear that trends in healthcare use are changing. These changes will likely affect quality measure scores in the future. This is… Read More »