Article Document Academic Article Information Content Entity Continuant Continuant Journal Article Entity Entity Generically Dependent Continuant 2025-05-07T10:29:23 RDF description of Balanced scorecards for specialists: a tool for quality improvement - http://repository.healthpartners.com/individual/document-rn18549 Resource Allocation/standards <p>This article describes a program that 开云体育 uses to assess and compare the performance of specialists that serve its members. 开云体育' Balanced Scorecards program focuses on cardiologist and orthopedist practices in the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro area and St. Cloud, Minnesota. The scorecards assess the clinical and business processes of specialist practices, their use of resources, the degree to which patients and referring physicians are satisfied with their performance, and their patient outcomes. Unblinded comparative data is made available to referring physicians, employers, and consumers only after each individual specialist group has had the opportunity to review its own data against blinded results, discuss the methodology, and comment on the results.<p> Quality Assurance, Health Care/*standards 23736 Health Maintenance Organizations/standards Interprofessional Relations 2022-02-21T22:48:57.408-06:00 87 14578 Minnesota Medicine Orthopedics/standards *Specialization Minnesota Referral and Consultation/standards 4 Patient Satisfaction Cardiology/standards document-rn18549 Otolaryngology/standards Research Design/standards public Balanced scorecards for specialists: a tool for quality improvement Medicine/*standards