Structure Measures

Structure: Structure of care is a feature of a health care organization or clinician related to the capacity to provide high quality health care.

1. Structure measures are supported by evidence that an association exists between the measure and one of the other clinical quality measure domains.
2. These measures can focus on either health care organizations or individual clinicians.

Example: Does the health care organization use Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE)

• AHA Measures
• Census Measures