Advancing value in oral health through meaningful measurement.

J Public Health Dent

Dental Quality Alliance, American Dental Association, Chicago, IL, USA.

Published: September 2020

Central to all value-based purchasing (VBP) approaches are value metrics, the measurements used to drive improvement, facilitate payment, and evaluate results of VBP programs. This article outlines approaches for adopting meaningful measurement systems that can be used to support VBP in the near term and identifies systemic changes critical to developing more robust measurement systems to advance VBP in the future.

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