Learn how standard of living is defined, measured, and what factors like housing and economic opportunity influence it.

Health-related quality of life is a psychometrically sound outcome measure for high-cost, high-need populations. Unlike health care spending, it does not exhibit mean reversion. Objectives: To ...

When CMS announced its proposed quality measures for Medicaid home- and community-based services (HCBS) for 2028, I was a ...

The skyline of Oslo with the Munch Museum in center photographed in Oslo, Norway, Thursday, 8 December 2022.

A new study explores the relationship between frailty, the proportion of health deficits present in an individual, as measured by the Systemic Lupus International Collaborating Clinics Frailty Index ...

Los Angeles residents’ quality of life has reached a historic low, UCLA researchers said at a Wednesday event. Zev ...

This Forefront article synthesizes lessons from widely adopted health care quality metrics to inform future quality metric design and development. The evolution of health care quality metrics over the ...

Over the past several decades, an appealing idea rapidly gained popularity: The government could advance a health care system that rewarded the quality of care rather than the volume of care. Medicare ...