What sorts of performance measures will the Ethical Force Program create and for what sorts of organizations will they be used?
Like so-called “condition-specific” performance measures, Ethical Force performance measures for ethics quality will include questions that can be placed into practitioner and patient surveys, as well as easy-to-use site review criteria and policy review criteria. The measures will be distributed — with grading instruction and examples of good performance — in Ethics Performance Measurement “Tool kits,” which can be easily and inexpensively used to measure organizational performance in specific domains of ethics. Unlike condition-specific measures, however, Ethical Force measures will be geared to assess the performance of all organizations involved in health care delivery–from purchasers, such as employers and the government, to provider organizations, such as managed care plans, hospitals and physician groups, and all those in-between.
