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Podcast: A Health Podyssey
Episode: Should social risks factor into health care quality measures?
Description: A central tenant of the move to value-based payment in health care is that quality can be measured and high quality providers should be rewarded for their excellence. But efforts to define and measure quality of care can run into challenges.It's considered benign to take certain types of risk factors, such as disease severity, into account when measuring quality of care. But accounting for social risk factors, like poverty or housing instability, is a lot more controversial.It's also the subject of today's A Health Podyssey. In an April 2021 paper as part...