Importance of an alternative approach to measuring quality in a volume-to-value world: a case study of diabetes care.
Letoynia Jenee CoombsBetty BurstonDarren LiuPublished in: BMJ open quality (2017)
Such findings suggest an inherent linkage between volume of care and quality. This statistical approach, if provided as an app containing an easy-to-use statistical calculator, will allow practice managers and clinicians to systematically identify volume/quality trade-offs, thereby reducing undertreatment and/or overtreatment among patients with chronicities.