Keith Humphreys

Publication Details

• Developing and validating process measures of health care quality: an application to alcohol use disorder treatment.

  Harris AH, Kivlahan DR, Bowe T, Finney JW, Humphreys K. Med Care. 2009; 47 (12): 1244-50

  Health care process quality measures usually are designed by expert panels attempting to synthesize nuanced clinical evidence and subsequently operationalized using administrative data. Many quality measures are then adopted without directly validating their presumed links with outcomes. Later efforts to validate process measures often yield negative results, leaving policy makers without a defensible means of measuring quality. This article presents an alternative strategy for developing and validating process quality measures. The development of an alcohol use disorder (AUD) treatment quality measure is used as an example.

  PubMedID: 19786908