Does hospital performance on process measures directly measure high quality care or is it a marker of unmeasured care?
Performance measures reflect care processes that both improve care directly and are also markers of elements of health care quality that are otherwise unmeasured. This finding suggests that process measures capture important information about care that is not directly measured, and that these unmeasured effects are in general larger than the measured effects.
This in vitro study suggests that AM in the heart is mainly produced in NMCs and exerts its effects through NMCs, especially under inflammatory conditions.