Nursing measures: implementation considerations: lessons learned from the field.

ABSTRACT

With today's focus on performance measurement, pay for quality, and other data-driven initiatives in the health care industry, measurement developers and researchers interested in testing these metrics need to keep in mind the needs of those end users that will be tasked with collecting, submitting, and in many cases analyzing the information that flows from these measures. This article will highlight a number of key issues learned from the field and suggest opportunities for research into the design and deployment of these measures.