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Massachusetts Health Quality Partners Issues 2008 Report on Quality of Care
Date:4/2/2008

As cost and quality move to the forefront in Massachusetts health reform,

report highlights strengths and improvement opportunities

BOSTON, April 2, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A report released today by Massachusetts Health Quality Partners (MHQP) finds that, overall, primary care physicians in Massachusetts continue to excel in providing preventive care and in helping patients manage chronic conditions, but that there are still significant opportunities to improve health outcomes and control unnecessary health care spending.

MHQP compiled quality data for 150 medical groups across the state for their fourth annual Quality Insights: Clinical Quality in Primary Care report. The results can be viewed at mhqp.org, where a simple web tool allows people to look up clinical quality measures that are important to them and compare the ratings of medical groups by name or location.

Massachusetts physicians perform better than the national 50th percentile on 24 of 25 quality-of-care measures reported by MHQP this year, and above the national 90th percentile on 12 of 25 measures. For instance, on measures for managing chronic diseases like diabetes and adult asthma, Massachusetts physicians performed well above the 50th percentile national benchmark but below the 90th percentile.

"Massachusetts physicians continue to earn high marks for key quality measures, but we also found sizable variations among medical groups throughout the state as well as gaps between quality performance for some chronic conditions and measurable improvements in patients' health outcomes," said Barbra Rabson, executive director of MHQP. "These gaps represent important opportunities for doctors and patients to collaborate in improving quality and controlling costs."

Clinical outcome data included for the first time

This year's MHQP report includes, for the first time, statewide "outcome" measures that indicate how well certain risk f
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