This course sets out to answer a number of foundational and application-based questions for health services researchers and other health professionals focusing on evaluation of health care quality: What are some frameworks within which we can measure, evaluate, and improve quality of care? How we do reliably and validly measure quality? How do we use different types of data to measure and report on different dimensions of quality? What are ways in which quality data may be aggregated and what controversies surround those approaches? How do we appropriately profile providers and systems, and how do we best create and interpret composite measures in doing so? Throughout the semester, students will be able to answer these questions and apply this learning to practical data exercises and case studies.

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